Edvige Liquori Quotes & Sayings

Skinniness is not your friend when you're over 40. I'd like to gain a good 10 pounds, but I did always have a fat, round face that plagued me when I was young. When I started to make movies, I couldn't look at myself. — Ellen Barkin

She didn't use the misery of others to cultivate her own smugness, true, but at least I didn't go about eating all their food. — Martin Amis

As an actor, it's a relatively passive job unless you're generating your own content or writing your own content. So to a certain degree you're at the mercy of what is available, what you're reading, what you become passionate about, and ultimately, what people want to hire you for. — Elijah Wood

Sometimes I get jealous when I'm reading a great book by a younger writer. But 'White Tiger' is so good, I almost forgot to hate Aravind Adiga. — David Benioff

In dialogue, make sure that your attributives do not awkwardly interrupt a spoken sentence. Place them where the breath would come naturally in speech-that is, where the speaker would pause for emphasis, or take a breath. The best test for locating an attributive is to speak the sentence aloud. — E.B. White

MY MOTHER WAS A FISH. That's why I can swim so well, — Anonymous

For him, that's what battle is. A Symphony. — Sarah J. Maas

The belief that youth is the happiest time of life is founded on a fallacy. The happiest person is the person who thinks the most interesting thoughts, and we grow happier as we grow older. — William Lyon Phelps

You inability to reconstruct past beliefs will inevitably cause you to underestimate the extent to which you were surprised by past events. — Daniel Kahneman

The thing about the 'Melrose' novels is that I have to feel they're impossible when I set out. — Edward St. Aubyn

That's all I wanted to do as a kid. Play a guitar properly and jump around. But too many people got in the way. — Syd Barrett

I love stories. But I don't distinguish so much between a short story and a novel. Personally, when I sit down to read a novel or a Chekhov story, I'm seeking the same thing: I'm seeking that same rich portrayal of life in words. — Jhumpa Lahiri

You live up - or down - to your expectations. — Lou Holtz