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It is confusing, because in this culture we really don't have anything that corresponds to geisha.

To be a geisha, you have to have to an iron-clad layer around you - around your physical body and your heart.

There's nothing in Chinese culture that is an equivalent of the geisha. It's so different, so special to Japan.

What I really wanted to know, though, was what it was like to be a geisha? Where do you sleep? What do you eat? How do you have your hair done?

'Memoirs of a Geisha' is everything you'd expect it to be: beautiful, mesmerizing, tasteful, Japanese. It's just not very hot.

I was really interested in geishas' work, and wanted to meet real geishas.

I really love Alexa Chung's style. I really think she gets it right all the time. I've never seen a picture of her where I didn't love the outfit.

Geisha because when I was living in Japan, I met a fellow whose mother was a geisha, and I thought that was kind of fascinating and ended up reading about the subject just about the same time I was getting interested in writing fiction.

Martial arts is just practice. Being a geisha requires complete control.

I honestly hate wearing makeup.