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There is a castle on a cloud...
I like to go there in my sleep
Created on 2003-07-09 10:28:17 (#1170980), last updated 2009-04-08
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Basic Info| Name: | Kirsty |
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| Birthdate: | 1988-04-17 |
| Location: | Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland |
| Website: | My Greatestjournal |
Bio
| La Fille |
"I was not cast in the mold of serenity and in any case, although you may succeed in being kind at twenty you cannot be calm, with all your life still before you, and your ambitions unfulfilled." - Vivien Leigh Twenty year old History student. Nostaglic and a hopeless romantic even though I don't appear it. History geek and avid reader. Equally avid traveller. Wants to travel the world but before that teach English in Russia. Would rather be in Paris. In fact, I plan living there once I'm finished with uni, and I will! At Glasgow Uni at the moment, being a big English and History geek and loving it! My main aspiriation in life is to marry Guillaume Canet, I care not if this makes me disgustingly shallow, the man is beautiful. My general favourite things in life are: Being with my friends because they are wonderful - they know who they are :), sleeping, shopping avec Meggy or in fact shopping in general except by myself, lazing about, tea!, when on holiday (especially in Paris), anything vintage, classic films, buying presents, receiving presents, cosmopolitians, dressing up, dresses, my russian doll dress, godiva chocolates, classic film stars, compliments, daydreaming, foreign films, Guillaume Canet!, travelling, Chanel, white chocolate mochas from Starbucks, lemurs, Vogue, good books, European cities, silly in jokes with friends, nostalgia, Russia, the hippo advert, foosa shindigs, soirees and festivities, good song lyrics, creme brulee, Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland, Guillaume Canet and Marion Cotillard (my new Olivia and Errol), revisits to Stirling, dancing like an idiot with friends, live music and gigs, heppooooo!, old photos, expensive make up, trinkets, seeing old friends again, Moomins, the Frolicking Hixxy Goatherders (don't ask...) |
| La Musique/Cinema/Theatre |
| I'm not particularly obsessive over music, I like it but it's not the be all and end all. I'm mainly listening to...Kate Nash, Bloc Party, Kings of Leon, The Decemberists, Damien Rice and a variety of random musical soundtracks at the moment (Avenue Q is the soundtrack to my life!) Films are a bit more important to me, most especially classic films. I don't really watch a huge amount of modern films unless they're period dramas or foreign films or are particularly special and wonderful (or Harry Potter) or feature Orlando Bloom (because I'm horribly shallow and will basically watch any film that he's in, even if it's utter crap) or any manner of obscure British actors. I'm easily pleased really. My ultimate five favourite films are: Gone with the Wind (nothing will ever replace it), Pride and Prejudice, Amelie, L'Auberge Espagnole and The History Boys. Then there's my happy films, mostly cheesy MGM musicals like Gigi. There's about a million more that I love but it'd probably take all day to list them so I'll spare you. Completely loving Gossip Girl right now, the books and the tv show, it's cheesy and I love itttt! Except I think I'm turning into Blair Waldorf which sort of terrifies me, a lot. Then I love lots of British comedy shows, anything with Stephen Fry, or Mock The Week, or something along those lines. Or Skins, I love it, I really do, it's marvy. The History Boys is my favourite play and I adore Alan Bennett. I could go on ad nauseum about how much it has inspired me and how much it means to me, but again, I won't. Just read it! Or watch it, or whatever you like really. . |
| Literary Loves |
| Books are increeedibly important to me, I've been a bit of a book geek for as far back as I can remember. I'm not a book snob in the slightest, I think a fondness for Harry Potter dissaudes that in everyway. I mainly read classic novels, plays, biographies and history books. Anyway, my most favourite books are: Gone with the Wind - Margaret Mitchell; Atonement - Ian McEwan; Rebecca - Daphne DuMaurier; The Secret History - Donna Tartt; Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen; Brideshead Revisted - Evelyn Waugh ; Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte; The House by the Dvina - Eugenie Fraser; Vile Bodies - Evelyn Waugh; The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffineger; Rebecca's Tale - Sally Beauman; The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy and most books by Sophie Kinsella (particularly the Shopaholic series), Kate Atkinson or Antonia Fraser. |
"The shores are littered with us, Annas and Ophelias, Emmas and Juliets, all outcasts from the dream of perfect understanding. We might as well draw the night around us and find solace there and a friend in our own voice."
"The best moments in reading are when you come across something - a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things - which you had thought special and particular to you. Now here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out and taken yours"
"You're entitled to your opinions, but it's really my decision...
Let me be all I can be, don't smother me with negativity, whatever's out there, I'm going to face it willingly."
Gone with the Wind is dramatic love
The OC is Love!
Classic Actresses are Love
"There are some who want to get married and others who don't. I have never had an impulse to go to the altar. I am a difficult person to lead." Greta Garbo
"Scorpios burn themselves out and eat themselves up and they are careless about themselves - like me. I swing between happiness and misery and I cry easily. I am a mixture of my mother's determination and my father's optimism. I am part prude and part non-conformist and I say what I think and don't dissemble. I am a mixture of French, Irish and Yorkshire, and perhaps that's what it all is." Vivien Leigh
"Playing good girls in the 30s was difficult, when the fad was to play bad girls. Actually I think playing bad girls is a bore; I have always had more luck with good girl roles because they require more from an actress." Olivia de Havilland
"Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you're exactly the same." Audrey Hepburn
"Without security it is difficult for a woman to look or feel beautiful." Merle Oberon
"Most of us don't know about happiness until it's over." Claudette Colbert
"I have no regrets. I wouldn't have lived my life the way I did if I was going to worry about what people were going to say." Ingrid Bergman
"Getting angry doesn't solve anything." Grace Kelly
"You know what I want? I want yesterday." Natalie Wood
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