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Florence Quotes
A city known for poise, art, and one famous name
Florence gets compared here to Paris and London, each city teaching a different social skill — Florence, it turns out, is where you learn poise.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Nov 07, 2020
In Paris, you learn wit, in London you learn to crush your social rivals, and in Florence you learn poise.
- Diversity
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- Nov 07, 2020
To be in Florence is to reflect on Europe's intricate diversity - and its lost creativity.
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- Nov 07, 2020
By the time Florence Nightingale got her neurotic hands on Cleopatra, she had been mangled beyond recognition by both history and literature.
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- Nov 07, 2020
How can even the best novelist or playwright invent someone like Augustus Caesar or Catherine the Great, Galileo or Florence Nightingale? How can screenwriters create better action stories or human dramas than exist, thousand upon thousand, throughout the many centuries of recorded history?
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I only get compared to women, which is crazy because often the women they compare me to... we just have a similar hairstyle. Whether it's Joni Mitchell or Florence and the Machine - our music doesn't always sound anything alike. But we just all have long hair.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I got married in Florence, Italy. My husband and I were in love but totally broke, so we eloped and got married in Italy, where he was going on a business trip. We had to pull a guy off the street to be our witness. It was incredibly romantic. Florence is still one of my favorite cities in the world.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother sent me and my sisters to Italy every year for language school, so I spent a lot of my teenage years in Florence and Rome. After university I went to Harvard for a year, dropped out, and then went to Paris, where I ended up staying 10 years. It's different from being American: If you're British, you're expected to live at the far corners.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
A really interesting and happy time was when I first went to Florence as a student and studied Italian. I was living in a pensione on an allowance of £40 a month, which was princely. I did a lot of work and enjoyed myself immensely.
- City
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always considered Florence as my girlfriend. I don't have to explain my love for this city.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I made music with my friend, who we called Isabella Machine to which I was Florence Robot. When I was about an hour away from my first gig, I still didn't have a name, so I thought 'Okay, I'll be Florence Robot/Isa Machine', before realising that name was so long it'd drive me mad.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Italian Renaissance extends beyond food, of course. Just about every major Italian furniture designer now has a shop in Paris, and Le Bon Marche recently opened an outlet for Santa Maria Novella perfumes, elixirs and soaps from Florence on its ground floor.
- Dream
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- Nov 07, 2020
I got a New York designer to build my dream store here, which is a little bit of Florence in New York. It's like the Duomo on Madison. I got inspired by Santa Maria Novella and all the Renaissance architecture.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The main song I listened to with the 'Firebird' books was 'Breath of Life' by Florence + the Machine.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Go out and find a copy of 'The Shrinking Of Treehorn' and its sequel, 'Treehorn's Treasure.' Written by Florence Parry Heide and illustrated by the great Edward Gorey, master of the gothic and the macabre, these books are small masterpieces.
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- Nov 07, 2020