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ANA DE ARMAS © Greg Williams // Behind the scene makeup for SAG Awards 2023

ANA DE ARMAS © Thomas Whiteside // L’Officiel USA, FALL 2022

“When your taste in men is as bad as mine, they don’t just go away quietly. They slash your tires and they kill your dogs and tell you that the music you like ain’t real music at all. And all the cruelty...tears you apart after a while.”

ZACK SNYDER’S JUSTICE LEAGUE (2021) dir. Zack Snyder

“It's only the second week of summer and there's already been a dead fish in the pool. We were performing a science experiment: we were trying to get it back alive.”

“This world is not yet ready for all that you will do. Your time will come, Diana. And everything will be different.”

“One day it started raining, and it didn't quit for four months. We been through every kind of rain there is. Little bitty stingin' rain... and big ol' fat rain. Rain that flew in sideways. And sometimes rain even seemed to come straight up from underneath. Shoot, it even rained at night...”

“I would lie down here. And you could do anything you wanted to me. Do you know that?”

“I object to every thought or action or feeling of mine being policed like we’re in some authoritarian fantasy.”

“I often wonder how it happened. All of it, us. You know how many people in similar situations to what we all went through together can't even stand to be in the same room. I mean, we were not supposed to get out of Jersey.”

“I am not going to sit on my ass as the events that affect me unfold to determine the course of my life. I'm going to take a stand. I'm going to defend it. Right or wrong, I'm going to defend it.”

“Saturday, March 24, 1984. Shermer High School, Shermer, Illinois, 60062. Dear Mr. Vernon, we accept the fact that we had to sacrifice a whole Saturday in detention for whatever it was we did wrong. What we did *was* wrong. But we think you're crazy to make us write an essay telling you who we think we are. What do you care? You see us as you want to see us - in the simplest terms, in the most convenient definitions. You see us as a brain, an athlete, a basket case, a princess and a criminal. Correct? That's the way we saw each other at 7:00 this morning. We were brainwashed.”

“I spoke in the car about the hole at the center of this donut. And yes, what you and Harlan did that fateful night seems at first glance to fill that hole perfectly. A donut hole in the donut's hole. But we must look a little closer. And when we do, we see that the donut hole has a hole in its center - it is not a donut hole at all but a smaller donut with its own hole, and our donut is not a hole at all!”

NATALIE PORTMAN @ The 92nd Annual Academy Awards at Hollywood and Highland on February 09, 2020 in Hollywood, California.

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