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I grew up in the same place as my mother, seeing the same trees my mother saw when she was at work; the flowers I picked were the flowers that my grandma planted. We have different styles; I wouldn't make the same clothes that my mum made, or my grandma, but we have the same taste. Margherita Missoni

When I was growing up, my family was serious about manners. I always wanted to put my elbow on the table to prop my head up. I didn't understand how other people looked awake. My head felt so heavy after the whole day. Margherita Missoni

Day Family People Manners Other Table Prop About Put Head Looked Felt Understand Always How Up Heavy Wanted After Elbow Whole Awake Serious Growing Growing Up

There may be people who try to imitate art when they get dressed and people who just get dressed to cover themselves up, but I guess that both send out messages and communicate their ideas and feelings through their looks. Margherita Missoni

My grandmother Rosita, my mother Angela and I have probably got different styles but we have very similar tastes. For example, I don't find it hard to use colours or wear knits, since it's something that comes to me naturally. Margherita Missoni

Every little detail of my life is, and has always been, surrounded by fashion - from the cup I drink my coffee from in the morning to my constant travels - fashion always pops up somewhere and somehow. Margherita Missoni

Life Fashion Morning Coffee My Life Somewhere Every Detail Constant Somehow Drink Always Been Cup Surrounded Up Little Pops Travels

My mother persuaded me not to pluck my eyebrows when I was a teenager - right now I'm so grateful I never did! She also taught me to pour 2 kg. of salt in my bath whenever I feel swollen and tired - and to end it with a cold shower. It does wonders. Margherita Missoni

Me Tired Grateful Mother Pour Salt Cold Bath Teenager Eyebrows Pluck Never Feel Also She Does End Did Wonders Taught Whenever Persuaded Shower Now Swollen Right

I saw a photo of a Christian Lacroix couture dress when I was in my teens and decided right then that that's how I wanted to look on my wedding day. In my mind, that's what angels looked like. Margherita Missoni

Day Mind Christian Teens Saw Photo Dress Angels Wedding Like Look Looked How Couture Wanted Decided Then Right

On my skin for the winter, I like Hydracid C20 cream by SVR. Margherita Missoni

Winter Skin Like Cream

I was born in Messina, Sicily. I stayed there until I was 18 and finished my studies. Maria Grazia Cucinotta

Finished Stayed Born Studies Until Sicily

It is better to laugh than cry. Maria Grazia Cucinotta

Better Laugh Cry Than

I took acting and elocution lessons, to get rid of my Sicilian accent. Maria Grazia Cucinotta

Took Accent Get Acting Rid Lessons Sicilian

Rome is magic, it's like being in Hollywood. But the difference between Hollywood and Rome is that here you don't have just the movie business. The movie business is so little, so you also have the choice to hang out with people who do different kinds of business. Maria Grazia Cucinotta

You Business People Different Kinds Out Kinds Magic Between Like Also Hang Just Difference Being Different Movie Movie Business Rome Little Hollywood Choice Who Here

I am curious, I love making discoveries, travelling, speaking with people, go shopping. Maria Grazia Cucinotta

Love People Shopping Making Am Go Discoveries Curious Speaking Travelling

Give me something to do and you will make me happy. Maria Grazia Cucinotta

Me You Happy Will Give Something Give Me Make

It is hard to describe the thrill of creative joy which the artist feels when the conviction seizes her that at last she has caught the very soul of the character she wishes to portray, in the music and action which reveal it. Maria Jeritza

The real exertion in the case of an opera singer lies not so much in her singing as in her acting of a role, for nearly every modern opera makes great dramatic and physical demands. Maria Jeritza

To aid life, leaving it free, however, that is the basic task of the educator. Maria Montessori

Life Free Aid Leaving However Educator Task Basic

Man is capable of every great heroism; it was man who found a means of conquering the formidable obstacles of his environment, establishing himself lord of the earth, and laying the foundations of civilization. Maria Montessori

We await the successsive births in the soul of the child. We give all possible material, that nothing may lack to the groping soul, and then we watch for the perfect faculty to come, safeguarding the child from interruption so that it may carry its efforts through. Maria Montessori

Soul Nothing Possible Carry Give Perfect Through Faculty Come Safeguarding Material Child Efforts Lack May Then Await Watch Interruption

In the first three years of life, the foundations of physical and also of psychic health are laid. In these years, the child not only increases in size but passes through great transformations. This is the age in which language and movement develop. The child must be safeguarded in order that these activities may develop freely. Maria Montessori

Life Health Great Age Psychic Language Three First Increases Must Physical Only Through Develop Freely Also Passes Years Child May Movement Order Size Laid Transformations Which Activities Foundations

The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. The teacher must understand and feel her position of observer: the activity must lie in the phenomenon. Maria Montessori

Teacher Natural Lie Must Only Observe Observer Feel Understand Natural Phenomena Capacity Derive Activity Her Phenomena Desire Phenomenon Position

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