Astrid Berges Quotes & Sayings

I don't want to lose the awe we get to help another human being. — Francis Chan

I think it's important to understand the concrete ways things work and to respect that. But some things shouldn't be explained, and you have to respect that, too. — Astrid Berges-Frisbey

One of my favourite items is a very old jacket - it was my mum's uniform from when she was working 15 or 20 years ago. — Astrid Berges-Frisbey

I grew up in the countryside riding horses, and I also ride every holiday in Spain, which is where I was born. It's a big part of my life. — Astrid Berges-Frisbey

We live in a vacuous world, yet we do so with a feeling of urgency. — Astrid Berges-Frisbey

My mum used to work for the Chanel store in Paris, so for me, I've always been very familiar with the brand because of her. I remember when I was very, very, little, our flat had Chanel shoe boxes, makeup, and some jackets. — Astrid Berges-Frisbey

Many gardeners will agree that hand-weeding is not the terrible drudgery that it is often made out to be. Some people find in it a kind of soothing monotony. It leaves their minds free to develop the plot for their next novel or to perfect the brilliant repartee with which they should have encountered a relative's latest example of unreasonableness. — Christopher Lloyd

I remember the feeling of a tweed Chanel jacket because my mom used to wear one to work. — Astrid Berges-Frisbey

Grace comes to forgive and then forgive again. — Rumi

I was too fresh from childhood. Subconsciously, my deepest brain still a cupboard of fairy tales, I suppose I believed that if pretty woman was no longer pretty she had done something to deserve it. I had a young girl's belief that this kind of negative aging would never come to me. Death would come to me - I knew this from reading British poetry. But the drying, hunching, blanching, hobbling, fading, fattening, thinning, slowing? I would just not let that happen to moi. — Lorrie Moore

People call me a 'model-actress,' when I just never started with that ... it's not my story. — Astrid Berges-Frisbey

Most of the pleasure of making a book would go if it held nothing to be shared by other people. I would write for a few dozen people, and sometimes it seems that I do so, but I would not write for no-one. — Ivy Compton-Burnett

Dragon fruit is very subtle, very delicate. So you want to be careful not to kill it with things that have very strong flavor. — Jose Andres

I'm very conscious of the luck I've had. It's important to have this in your mind and remember it. — Astrid Berges-Frisbey

Each remembered thing in the room was disenchanted, was deadened as an unlit transparency, till her wandering gaze came to the group of miniatures, and there at last she saw something which had gathered new breath and meaning: it was the miniature of Mr. Casaubon's aunt Julia, who had made the unfortunate marriage - of Will Ladislaw's grandmother. Dorothea could fancy that it was alive now - the delicate woman's face which yet had a headstrong look, a peculiarity difficult to interpret. Was it only her friends who thought her marriage unfortunate? or did she herself find it out to be a mistake, and taste the salt bitterness of her tears in the merciful silence of the night? What breadths of experience Dorothea seemed to have passed over since she first looked at this miniature! She felt a new companionship with it, as if it had an ear for her and could see how she was looking at it. Here was a woman who had known some difficulty about marriage. — George Eliot

For me, taking care of your skin is the most important step. You can cover it with all the makeup you have, and it's still not as nice as beautiful skin. — Astrid Berges-Frisbey

I don't think my eyes are stunning as some people's are. — Astrid Berges-Frisbey

Of my conception I know only what you know of yours. It occurred in darkness and I was unconsenting ... By some bleak alchemy what had been mere unbeing becomes death when life is mingled with it. — Marilynne Robinson

I glanced at my reflection and forced a smile. It was broken.
And I also had the hugest zit ever on my temple.
Awesome. — Jennifer L. Armentrout

The subject I was best at in school was biology. — Astrid Berges-Frisbey

Working in water is so difficult. But I liked having something very physical to do - you realize you're strong. It's a really good feeling. — Astrid Berges-Frisbey

When I'm working on my characters, that's something I pay a lot of attention to: how their body works, how they move, how they articulate. — Astrid Berges-Frisbey

For me, Chanel just makes sense - like a story or a film. It's part of my life. — Astrid Berges-Frisbey