Isla Dewar Quotes

Isla Dewar Quotes

Isla Dewar was a Scottish novelist and screenwriter, known for her novel Women Talking Dirty, turned into a film starring Helena Bonham Carter and Gina McKee. She wrote seventeen novels.

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✵ 29. June 1946 – 20. June 2021

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“You must master the vices. You know that if a thing is worth doing it's worth doing well. If, however, a thing is not worth doing then it's worth doing fabulously, amazingly, with grace, style and panache.”

Isla Dewar

Women Talking Dirty

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