Marisa Berenson quotes

“I think there are very few people who have a real style, a real personality, and real beauty.”
-- Marisa Berenson

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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“A lot of men are very possessive and they want to control you. But as you grow older, you attract people who are on your wavelength and who understand who you are.”
-- Marisa Berenson

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“As I get older, I feel better about myself because I've done a lot of spiritual work on myself and balanced myself out, and so I feel more confident about myself as a person and as a woman.”
-- Marisa Berenson

Source : Interview with Tom Ford, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 20, 2011.

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“I do think I learned to accept myself through the eyes of others when I was young because I wasn't brought up to think that I was beautiful or told I was beautiful.”
-- Marisa Berenson

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“I think I was very shy and introverted when I was younger, and yet, when I got in front of the camera or went out on the town, I was able to go out half-naked and do anything.”
-- Marisa Berenson

Source : Interview with Tom Ford, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 20, 2011.

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“My ultimate goal is to become a saint.”
-- Marisa Berenson

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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“A loud noise will get your fight-or-flight response going. This, over the years, can cause real cardiovascular damage.”

“I don't really want to write fiction at all. I don't see why fiction is necessary when we have real life already confusing enough.”

Source : "Cartographer of Word Galaxies". The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. September 24, 2013.

“A visual understanding of great composition and how to use a camera and expensive lenses can be learned, but drive and a real hunger for making photos and telling stories... I don't think that part can be learned. You either have that inside, or you don't.”

“Americans think the only funny Brits are John Cleese, Benny Hill and whoever makes our toothpaste. They're not laughing with us, they are laughing at us.”

“Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.”

“The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.”

“Facts are what pedantic, dull people have instead of opinions.”

Source : A.A. Gill (2007). “The Angry Island: Hunting the English”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

“The question of boundaries is a major question of the Jewish people because the Jews are the great experts of crossing boundaries. They have a sense of identity inside themselves that doesn't permit them to cross boundaries with other people.”

Source : "Boundaries And Crossing". Interview with Vered Shemtov, shma.com. March 4, 2004.

“Universities are not here to be mediums for the coercion of other people, they're here to be mediums for the free exchange of ideas.”

“People who deal with life generously and large-heartedly go on multiplying relationships to the end.”