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Dignity, and even holiness too, sometimes, are more questions of coat and waistcoat than some people imagine.

Maybe I’m too masculine. Casting directors cast in their own, or an idealized image. Maybe I don’t look like anybody’s ideal.

Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.

I’m the star of the show. I should have a decent haircut.

As blushing will sometimes make a whore pass for a virtuous woman, so modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.

Hair is also a problem. I remember once, when I was reporting from Beirut at the height of the civil war, someone wrote in to the BBC complaining about my appearance.

O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!

Be careless in your dress if you will, but keep a tidy soul.

I take an active role in my imaging and how I look.

The simple truth is that balding African-American men look cool when they shave their heads, whereas balding white men look like giant thumbs.