I’m often characterized as an optimistic writer, and certainly my ‘Neanderthal Parallax’ and ‘WWW’ trilogies shade toward the utopian. I like to think that’s not simple naivete, but rather a reasonable approach.
Gay teenagers are four times as likely to attempt suicide as straight ones. I wish they knew that there’s nothing wrong with them; that they are just a different shade of normal.
I don’t throw shade at anybody like, ‘You sound like me.’
I’m basically different things to different people. If it’s a guy, I’m-a probably have my guard up because it’s a street rule that when men come around that I don’t know, I just immediately throw shade on them. But I don’t associate with fellas all that much; if it’s a girl – a beautiful girl – I be nice.
NASA will send up a big sun shade that will be in orbit between the earth and sun and deflect 2 or 3 percent of the sunshine back into space. It would be cheaper than the international space station.
I adore Smashbox lip stains. I carry a natural color for daytime and a berry shade for going out at night.
The harming of animals for any reason is shameful, but torturing them for mere vanity is senseless. Slaughtering animals for their fur or harming them for cosmetic purposes is disgusting and not worth the perfect shade of lipstick.
I don’t believe any lip shade is off-limits, but texture is key. A sheer lipstick in a healthy pink or neutral color looks more polished and grown-up than a super-shiny gloss.
In real life, I don’t think anybody is all one shade. People who are perceived to be really good have bad thoughts and inclinations that they sometimes act on, I’m sure, and people have different sides to themselves.
When I started, there was only one other girl that I could name that was even close to my shade. I didn’t understand why there weren’t more black plus-size models with darker skin tones. It feels like the final frontier of beauty is to be black, to be plus, to have natural hair.
Don’t smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.
You create the color first, and then the name that fits. It depends – there are no rules. You watch a fabulous old movie, and you suddenly get inspired by it to create a lipstick shade, or you walk through a gorgeous garden and find the most beautiful flower shade for an eye shadow, and then you name it.
The great thing about ‘Mirzapur’ is that no one character is clear black or white, every character is working in a grey shade.
When I was younger, I used to buy foundations that were a shade lighter. Looking back at pictures I looked really stupid and now I don’t like it when someone who is doing my make-up uses too much light stuff to contour my face.
I’ve been known to write on the Underground in London and on the subway in New York. I have two or three cafes in Paris that I go into. I find a corner with a little shade, and I can work.
I love to see other women in pink. It’s good for every shade of skin and hair.
Gardens are not made by singing ‘Oh, how beautiful,’ and sitting in the shade.
I think some sing-songwriter music can just be very serious – after an hour and a half of it, you are exhausted – so I try and give it light and shade.
Personally, it was always very difficult to find complexion products that match my shade.
I’m not sure I could ever write for adults. That’s not to throw shade or anything, but I feel like teenagers are much more open-minded and willing to listen sometimes.
If tomorrow someone writes a romantic story, I’d like to bring a romantic shade of mine too. When someone puts that trust in you then you can do it.
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