Hints and tips:
...I’d love it even only for this: here it is, a filmmaker who isn’t lazy nor self-indulgent. A rarity in this era of bloated runtimes and single-proposition films.”...
...And my wife said she’d figured out the Neanderthaler connection from my table manners....
...I’d work with the elephants because I’d enjoy giving them a hug from time to time. I’ve recently rediscovered my collection of vinyl....
...If you’re enjoying the podcast, we’d really appreciate it if you left us a rating and review on Apple Podcasts. And do get in touch with me. I’m isabelle.berwick@ft.com, or I’m always on LinkedIn....
...“I’m still stuck on mimosa,” he says simply....
...I’m just a shiftless layabout: I’d be quite happy to lie on the sofa all day and read. I have never, in my entire life, had a real job....
...Donna Langley only looks ahead. She moves at pace through the packed dining room of La Petite Maison, a French Mediterranean restaurant in a Mayfair side street....
...I sang Donna Summer and The Spinners into my hair brush and got to practice my dance moves by watching Soul Train on TV (I’m still a HUGE Philadelphia sound fan....
...I’m told to blow the whistle as we approach level crossings....
...And since I started taking Vigor Donna and Red Clover herbal supplements from the Farmacia Regia in Turin a year ago, I feel like a superwoman.” Aesop Fabulous Face Oil, £40 for 25ml, aesop.com....
...“I’m really happy that I can translate that through fashion. Even though these aren’t prints from Africa, I am African, and that’s in my heart....
...I’m not the kind of musician who wants to learn songs by other artists. I don’t have the patience for that. I’m more about telling my own stories through music. And for that, the guitar is perfect....
...The relief in writing it down — and meaning it — was so total, I’d never felt anything like it.” It’s a poignant moment....
...“Luckily, I’m fine now. School of Rock was the first show I’d been really on top of for a long time.” “Do we mention the other lowest of the low moments?” says Madeleine. “The Cats film....
...The Penthouse Suite, with its sleeping mezzanine and skylights, looks on to the tiny Piazza Pasquino; there are two 95 sq m two-bedroom apartment suites on the top floor as well....
...“At the end of the night there’d be acres of sketches going down the corridor of the house. Of course, we’d wake up worse for wear and there’d be about one per cent in there that was usable.”...
...I’d be more scared because I’d be more easily seen.” He believes he would be recognised because “everyone sort of knows each other”, especially with social media....
...I’m thinking, ‘This is what the potential is,’ but at the moment it’s not been so great because you’re missing out on all the extra money you could make.”...
...Ditto Donna Tartt, who has published two novels since her debut, The Secret History, in 1992. It seems there is no cure except perseverance....
...“I’m a good half stone heavier.”...
...I’d love to wobble over to 7 Saints, a small bistro with a short weekly menu based on seasonal ingredients....
...The beauty and wellbeing staples I’m never without are a few spritzes of Dans Tes Bras from Frédéric Malle; Fabulous Face Oil by Aesop; and Vigor Donna and Red Clover herbal supplements from the Farmacia...
...it makes sense that you’d want to do more of it rather than less.”...
...I’d like to be a Finisher when I’m exercising my reading muscles by trying out new writers or diving into wuxia and other new genres for the very first time....
...You’re anything but a plain man yourself, and the very raison d’être of you all is that you’re little demons of subtlety.” We try to be, God knows....
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