#lia

I'm a fan of homeopathy, acupuncture and spiritual healing. In Australia, this is not weird, but when I arrived in the U.K., everyone thought I was a freak. ↗

— Natalie Imbruglia

#arrived #australia #everyone #fan #freak

If I start feeling down I'll gorge myself on pasta. That usually does the trick. It's the Italian blood in me. ↗

— Natalie Imbruglia

#does #down #feeling #i #italian

I've played some gangster roles, but that's obviously not me. When you're an Italian-American New York actor, it's just an easy way to get cast. ↗

— Michael Imperioli

#cast #easy #easy way #gangster #get

The relationship between reader and characters is very difficult. It is even more peculiar than the relationship between the writer and his characters. ↗

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

#characters #difficult #even #his #more

I'm not a writer. I think I can write short stories and poetry, but film writing, brilliant film writing, is a talent - you can't just do it like that. ↗

— Samantha Morton

#film #i #i can #i think #just

Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity. ↗

— Robert Green Ingersoll

#his #liar #loses #never #only

When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everyone will respect you. ↗

— Lao Tzu

#be-yourself #integrity #self-reliance #self-respect #respect

Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#also #beauty #birth #gives #opposite

Courage: the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently. ↗

— Maya Angelou

#consistency #courage #determination #essence #ethos

I wondered what happened when you offered yourself to someone, and they opened you, only to discover you were not the gift they expected and they had to smile and nod and say thank you all the same. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#julia-romano #love #unrequited #dating