When I was having my hair and make-up done backstage at a fashion show, I would sneak in … - Carla Bruni

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I never see a novel as a film while I'm writing it. Mostly because novels and films are so different, and I'm such an internal novelist

Carla Bruni

When I was having my hair and make-up done backstage at a fashion show, I would sneak in a copy of Dostoevsky and read it inside a copy of Elle or Vogue. But it would be pretentious of me to say I was more intelligent than the other supermodels.

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