Elsa Peretti Quotes

I can hold a cup of sake on a full moon in Japan, and the reflection of the moon in that little cup can make me feel so enthusiastic about beauty. That one good, magical moment can give me enough to create other things like the teardrop earring or necklace.

Elsa Peretti

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• The fact is that people are good, Give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be secure in their feelings and their behavior.

  

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• I like 'The Nightly Show.' People ask me what it is, and I say, 'If you're watching 'The Daily Show,' and it feels like it's getting a little darker, you're probably watching 'The Nightly Show.''

  

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• Politics has got too personal, too nasty, in Britain, as it has in America.

  

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• I'm not the type of person to have a schadenfreude.

  

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• These activists who support immigrants inadvertently become part of this international human-smuggling network.

  

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• I don't write under the ghost of Faulkner. I live in the same town and find his life and work inspiring, but that's it. I have a motorcycle and tool along the country lanes. I travel at my own speed.

  

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• One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

  

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• 'Dog Days' was recorded with pens and the wall, and half a stolen drum kit that was out of tune, in what was basically a cupboard. The only instrument I could really play was my voice, so we just layered everything a hundred times. It was enthusiasm over skill.

  

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• I feel like, as a celebrity, I have a responsibility to tell important stories.

  

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• People ask me about fighting in real life and, honestly, it wouldn't look as graceful as it does in film and TV.

  

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• If I wasn't in fashion, I would have been a psychiatrist.

  

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• Fast food is the one thing everyone can relate to. It's depressing, but also interesting, that people desire to eat the same sandwich in every single city in the world. But the biggest bummer is when you see a Subway in Berlin. Just devastating.

  

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• I'm not really a fan of people who think they're better than others. There's no reason to act that way. I couldn't even stand to yell at someone if they bumped right into me.

  

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• I want to be a mayor who helped, really helped.

  

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• I grew up in New York City - I grew up surrounded by every sound that you imagine can come from a New Yorker. All of the different boroughs and all of the different sounds.

  

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• No matter where I am in the world, I will always be back home for Christmas.

  

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• My parents separated when I was young, and as a result, my father had to learn how to braid our hair on the nights my sisters and I would stay with him. We would arrive to school the next morning with these incredibly endearing lopsided braids he had fashioned. This may have expedited the process of my learning how to braid my own hair.

  

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• I can hold a cup of sake on a full moon in Japan, and the reflection of the moon in that little cup can make me feel so enthusiastic about beauty. That one good, magical moment can give me enough to create other things like the teardrop earring or necklace.

  

  Elsa Peretti
  • Good
  • Moon
  • Reflection