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Alexandra Adornetto
"I kept interrupting the movie by asking a lot of questions that Xavier managed to answer with endless patience. "How old do you think Bell is supposed to be?" "I don't know, probably our age." "I think the beast is sweet, don't you?" "Do I have to answer that?" "Why does the crockery talk?" "Because they're really the prince's servants that the beggar woman put a spell on." Xavier frowned suddenly and looked mortified. "I can't believe I know that." --
Alexandra Adornetto
#Sweet Quotes
#Believe Quotes
#Thinking Quotes
“I filmed 'Albatross' before I got 'Downton.' It's a coming-of-age movie about this girl who leaps into this family's life, like a whirlwind. She's ballsy and brash and wonderful, it was such an amazing character to play.”
“Where’s your sketch pad?†I asked. … “I gave that up,†Kay said. “I wasn’t very good, so I changed my major.†“To what?†“To pre-med, then psychology, then English lit, then history.†“I like a woman who knows what she wants.†Kay smiled. “So do I, but I don’t know any.”
“We all have to find beauty within us, as opposed to just our exterior.”
“Persons visited by the angel quiver with a thrill unknown to the rest of mankind”
“Tony Morrison said, 'Can't I love what I criticize, criticize what I love.'”
“They cannot scare me with their empty spaces Between stars—on stars where no human race is. I have it in me so much nearer home To scare myself with my own desert places.”
“If the book is good, is about something that you know, and is truly written, and reading it over you see that this is so, you can let the boys yip and the noise will have that pleasant sound coyotes make on a very cold night when they are out in the snow and you are in your own cabin that you have built or paid for with your work.”
“If there's a character type I despise, it's the all-capable, all-knowing, physically perfect protagonist. My idea of hell would be to be trapped in a four-hundred page, first-person, first-tense, running monologue with a character like that. I think writers who produce characters along those lines should graduate from high school and move on.”