Amanda Filipacchi quotes

“For months I had been trying to be less myself.”
-- Amanda Filipacchi

Source : Amanda Filipacchi (2014). “Vapor: A Novel”, p.3, Open Road Media

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“My gift to you will be to take away your freedom of choice for a while. Freedom can be very unhealthy and unproductive. Instead, you'll have freedom from choice.”
-- Amanda Filipacchi

Source : Amanda Filipacchi (2014). “Vapor: A Novel”, p.64, Open Road Media

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“One of my greatest pleasures in life is promising myself I will not drink, or smoke, or take coke, or do heroin, or eat cookies, then doing it. It's a pleasure that can be repeated daily.”
-- Amanda Filipacchi

Source : Amanda Filipacchi (2014). “Love Creeps: A Novel”, p.8, Open Road Media

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“We think we know people. We think that what we see is all there is. We rarely ask ourselves what goes on behind the curtain. We jump to conclusions. And we take everything very personally.”
-- Amanda Filipacchi

Source : Amanda Filipacchi (2015). “The Unfortunate Importance of Beauty: A Novel”, p.218, W. W. Norton & Company

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“Okay, I'm flattered, I appreciate your attempt at making me feel better after the fiasco with the pita rolls, but please ring up this beer I need it more than flattery.”
-- Amanda Filipacchi

Source : Amanda Filipacchi (2014). “Love Creeps: A Novel”, p.22, Open Road Media

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“I am a man without many pleasures in life, a man whose few pleasures are small, but a man whose small pleasures are very important to him. One of them is eating. One reading. Another reading while eating.”
-- Amanda Filipacchi

Source : "Nude Men". Book by Amanda Filipacchi, 1993.

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“Making wishes on the elephant is emotionally dangerous, because inevitably one's hopes rise abnormally high, unhealthily high, and when the wish does not come true, one's high hopes get crushed more painfully than if one had not asked for the help of supernatural powers. Therefore, one should always try to make the wish casually and forget about it instantly after making it, which is what I try to do now.”
-- Amanda Filipacchi

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“The chief danger of the Church today is that it is trying to get on the same side as the world, instead of turning the world upside down. Our Master expects us to accomplish results, even if they bring opposition and conflict. Anything is better than compromise, apathy, and paralysis.  God give to us an intense cry for the old-time power of the Gospel and the Holy Ghost!”

“Try lighting your house by prayer instead of electricity and see which one works.”

“The business models in enterprise have changed pretty dramatically. A huge problem with enterprise software traditionally has been usually you sell to the customer and then they adopt the technology. The great thing about 'freemium' and the new way enterprise software is being sold is you get to try it first and then buy it.”

“I try to be as courteous as possible and sometimes try to tell my fans that as much as I appreciate their support, there are times where I need to be able to have an uninterrupted dinner or not have to take a bunch of pictures or just be able to do some of the normal things.”

“I try to pick characters that I find interesting and complex and that I feel I can bring something of myself to.”

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“I was speaking to Ridley Scott the other day and he makes a film every 18 months. He's amazing really.”

“Apparently I had lunch with Johnny Depp when I was three months old.”

“Depending on what day of the week it is and what time of the month it is, I'm a good friend or not a good friend. I'm more or less a good mom or not a good mom, more or less a good mate or not a good mate. That's just life, whether or not you're public.”

“I can only have dinner with my girlfriends once a month instead of once a week.”

“I'd never been a teacher before, and here I was starting my first day with these eager students. There was a shortage of teachers, and they had been without a math teacher for six months. They were so excited to learn math.”