A Quote by MacKenzie Scott

Cocktail parties for me can be nerve-racking. The brevity of conversations, the number of them - it's not my sweet spot.

MacKenzie Scott

Quote Topics

Brevity Cocktail Cocktail Parties Conversations Me Nerve Nerve-Racking Number Parties Spot Sweet Them

Quote Author

MacKenzie Scott
American - Novelist
Born: April 7, 1970

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Bella Heathcote

I am not someone who likes cocktail parties or large dinner parties, but I have to attend them often. I much prefer very small dinners with close friends.

Tom Ford

He who writes distichs, wishes, I suppose, to please by brevity. But, tell me, of what avail is their brevity, when there is a whose book full of them?

Martial

Auditioning is so nerve-racking.

Leslie Mann

so my grandmother was not without humanity. and if she wore cocktail dresses when she labored in the garden, they were cocktail dresses she no longer intended to wear to cocktail parties. even in her rose garden she did not want to appear underdressed. if the dresses got too dirty from gardening, she threw them out. when my mother suggested to her that she might have them cleaned, my grandmother said, "what? and have those people at the cleaners what i was doing in a dress to make it that dirty?" from my grandmother i learned that logic is relative.

John Irving

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We know what it's like to audition as kids and how nerve-racking it is.

Declan Donnelly

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Jane Wiedlin

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Naomi Watts

What's easy to forget once you're minorly famous is how nerve-racking it is to walk up to someone famous and interrupt them. When I'm taking a picture with a fan, it's not uncommon for their hands to be shaking or for me to feel their heart pounding through their rib cage. But the best part is how easy it is for me to make someone's day.