After pregnancy, the important thing is rebuilding your back muscles.

Moscow is a huge inspiration for me. I love what I find here, I love being here.

It's better to be skinny than to be fat.

I completely admire my mother for raising a child with cerebral palsy at home.

We all have our own purpose in life and I feel very strongly that I have a bigger purpose than giving to just my immediate family and friends.

My appearance gave me access to a particular kind of world and I'm really grateful for it.

The big contracts go to the girls who are healthy - they need to have a sparkle in their eyes and you can't fake that if you're unhealthy.

I love Yves Saint Laurent and Giambattista Valli and Givenchy and I get given quite a lot, but perhaps nothing is as wonderful as the white fake leather trench coat I got when I was 15.

Before I left Russia in 1999, I was living in a very poor factory town with my family and friends, and nothing was ever going to change.

I think protecting your family and giving to them is so important. It’s the most important achievement.

Keeping up with everything I do requires some sacrifices, but once and a while I need to take some time to myself.

...the whole universe is through and through the playing of love in every shade of the word's use, from animal lust to divine charity.

Rest, rest, shall I have not all eternity to rest.

The trio is the biggest sound you can have with the smallest unit.

A woman's hair net tangled in a man's spectacles on top of the bedroom dresser.

Anytime you try to be a loving person, you're doing your part to save the world.

And how moving is the eloquence of the untaught when it is the heart that is speaking!

I don't feel I'm thrown around by the winds of taste and fashion.

The filmmaker's got to make it his story and the actors have got to make it their story.

Writing fiction, especially a long work of fiction, can be a difficult, lonely job; it's like crossing the Atlantic Ocean in a bathtub. There's plenty of opportunity for self-doubt.

I swear if you cry, I'll kill you here and now.' Cinna just smiles. 'Had a damp morning?' 'You could wring me out.' I reply