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Quando abbiamo finito sono andato a fare una passeggiata da solo, fino alla collina che anni prima in un giorno di neve io e Guido avevamo risalito per contemplare il passaggio. Ho cercato il punto preciso in cui ci eravamo fermati e ho guardato in basso come avevamo fatto allora, ed era strano vedere una casa sola dove ce n'erano state due.

Describe snow to someone who's lived in the desert. Depict the colour blue for a blind man. Almost impossible to fashion the word.

I look like vanilla pudding so nobody knows that on the inside I am spider soup.

Pros and cons Ins and outs Good or bad Happy or sad Mad or glad The balancing act From the poem The Balancing Act by Andreas Simic

There is a velvety sensuality here at the mouth of the Mississippi that you won't find anywhere else. Tell me what the air feels like at 3 A.M. on a Thursday night in August in Shaker Heights and I bet you won't be able to say because nobody stays up that late. But in New Orleans, I tell you, it's ink and honey passed through silver moonlight.

a sense, the history of anti-Americanism in France is perhaps the most interesting in Europe. In contrast to all the other major European countries—Great Britain, Germany, Spain, Italy, even the Austro-Hungarian monarchy75 —France and the United States have never fought a war against each other.

Soy rubia. Rubísima. Soy tan rubia que me dicen: "Mona, no es sino que aletee ese pelo sobre mi cara y verá que me libra de esta sombra que me acosa". No era sombra sino muerte lo que le cruzaba la cara y me dio miedo perder mi brillo.

Amazing that Americans can obtain so much mass, approximate stuff of two or three people in Beijing.

The clouds in the movies have always seemed more real to me than those on TV. There would be no clouds on Modern Family , that was certain, and I was not sure I could work in a world without clouds.

By way of contrast, on uninhabited Wrangell Island, an isolated scrap of land in the Chukchi Sea north of Siberia, mammoths survived until about 4,000 years ago.

The more beautiful the sky, the more hopeless the neighborhood.

Cities can be paradoxical places. In the mornings they buzz with commuters, in the evenings they come alive with diners and partygoers, at weekends the streets fill with shoppers and market traders. But amidst the hustle and bustle, even the greatest city can be a lonely place.

The first record took us, like, a year and a half to make. The second one took 21 days, including weekends.

My weeks tend to differ pretty dramatically.

You can have a laugh in Los Angeles, or you can weep in Los Angeles, depending on your attitude towards it.

We filmed 'Labyrinth' in South Africa for two and a half months and it was just the most unbelievable experience. Lots of sword fighting, mud in hair and lots of weeping! It's very different from 'Downton' because I was going to work and having mud put in my hair - it's the other extreme of the look!

My cat is older than many fashion models. I won't even discuss the fact that she also weighs more.

The former measured six feet and an inch in his stockings, and, without a single pound of cumbrous flesh about him, weighed a hundred and eighty. The latter was an inch shorter than his rival, and ten pounds lighter; but he was much the most active of the two.

Is that weird, taking my Louis Vuitton bag camping?

But I was feeling quite down at the time. I was living in L.A., which was kind of weird for me.

It's a weird dynamic - I guess there is a fine line between hope and sadness. Sometimes you can be feeling both at the same time.

Sometimes it's so weird just to do an interview. This morning I was back in my parents' house, with my brother, and we went for a jog together, then had breakfast as a family. And a couple of hours later I'm wearing high heels and a dress and makeup, and talking about my job.

It's weird, because usually if you're British and you go to America you play baddies; but I play naughty people here and goodies in America.

I think I appear very innocent and soft, but I'm actually very dark and edgy. It's a weird dichotomy.