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Lucia Perillo
"Sometimes a name seems our most arbitrary possession, and sometimes it seems like the grain in a rock like a sculptor's hunk of Italian marble: Whack it and you might get either your first glimpse of a saint or a pile of rubble." --
Source : Lucia Perillo (2012). “Inseminating the Elephant”, p.37, Copper Canyon Press
Lucia Perillo
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“I deeply believe that marriage is by nature between a man and a woman, but that conviction does not prevent me from recognising that other forms of affective relationships exist.”
“In economics, when you put together a highly elastic thing and a highly inelastic thing, you create extraordinary potential for turbulence, volatility, and for unstable prices.”
Source : Source: www.huffingtonpost.com
“I would be a liar if I said it wouldn't be lovely and soothing - that's the word - to have a hit single or a hit album.”
“The central tenet of Christianity as it has come down to us is that we are to reach out when our instinct is to pull inward; to give when we want to take; to love when we are inclined to hate; to include when are tempted to exclude.”
“Anyone who knows my professional history has known I've gone through a gazillion managers and agents or whatever. I'm like, "This doesn't feel right - moving on." I don't really suffer fools, which makes it easier for me.”
“I feel so grateful when I see a movie and there's a woman who looks somewhat like me. I'm like, 'Thank you, Samantha Morton!' You know, a woman who feels like a human being. That means so much to me.”
Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Good food is the basis of true happiness”
“Never fall for someone with a body to diet for.”
Source : Time Out, December 12, 2001.