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“What are we here for? Athletics — or to stand around and look at the girls’ behinds?”
–Marilynn Wills, a veteran Florida high school coach, on the state High School Activities Association’s decision to disqualify a Miami girls’ prep school cross-country team from a state meet because its members were wearing “bun-hugger” running shorts, the kind worn by track stars Florence Griffith-Joyner and Gail Deavers
“`Brief, short-lived. It was a good diary entry, that’s all.”
–actress Brooke Shields, on having dated John F. Kennedy Jr.
“I poured paste in the other kids’ hair. I talked constantly. I would pick fights. If a girl had really long hair, I’d walk up quietly with my scissors and cut it all off.”
–actress Olympia Dukakis, on her grade school days and the irony that she’s now playing a stern school principal in “Mr. Holland’s Opus”
“It’s not my favorite thing. As a father, you want your kids to marry, have children. But Chastity told me, `If you think I like this you’re crazy.’ “
–former entertainer Sonny Bono, now a Republican congressman from California, on his daughter’s life as a lesbian
“I don’t miss one darn thing. I loved being the wife of the president, but anyone who wants something that’s gone, or that they can’t have, is stupid. I hate it when people whine about something they can’t have.”
–former First Lady Barbara Bush, on whether she misses the White House
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“I never trust a man whose manicure is better than mine.”
–Britt Montero, the fictional crime reporter in Edna Buchanan’s new mystery, “Act of Betrayal” (Hyperion, $21.95)
