Anat Cohen Quotes

I went to live on a kibbutz, and I'd idealized the world of collective, agrarian work, where everyone was equal, everyone contributed, that all this awful European intellectual stuff just fell away.

Country life is different from city life, but I think it was good for me. Working on the farm, I got a balance in my life.

I just keep to myself and live in the country and visit the cities.

When I look back at my past and the way I grew up, I grew up on communes. That was meant to be.

When I'm, like, 30, I want to go off the map, have a family and live in Malibu with a farm, and just raise my own chickens.

In California, I'm more of a beach chick, and I kind of take on a model city girl when I'm in New York.

In the West, the basic economic and social unit is the individual; in Africa, it is the extended family or the collective.

I think a Maybelline girl represents such an amazing thing - a girl that's independent and strong and can maneuver the city by herself and, you know, really the New York girl, which girls all over the world look up to. So to be able to represent that girl is so amazing. And also to adventure in New York with the Maybelline team will be really fun.

Once you live in New York, you can't live anywhere else. Living in Paris is like going in slow motion. It's so bourgeois. I get so bored.

I just had this New York thing. When I got there, I felt so at home. I said, 'This is where the crazy people go.' It's OK to be yourself in New York. In L.A., it's difficult.

There is no such thing as a weekend for me when I'm at home on my ranch in Oregon.

I am a city girl I think, at heart.

Loft living is the antithesis of suburban domesticity, if only because the open spaces don't easily accommodate family life. Lofts also offer residents the opportunity - and responsibility - to structure their own space to reflect what's important to them.

When I look back at it now, my past and the way I grew up, I grew up on communes.

I think Delhiites know how to party, but Kolkata has people who know how to celebrate. I think that's the main difference.

I live in Mexico in the wintertime, and I live off the grid down there.

People in Philadelphia are a world apart from New York. They're very different from people in the New York scene. The New York scene wants your visibility and wants your money.

There is a quiet about the life of a farmer, and the hope of a serene old age, that no other business or profession can promise.

I had a really negative look at the night-life side of Hollywood, which I really didn't like. I went to New York to focus on modeling, and then of course found that New York was not any different from Los Angeles.

I want people to see how hard my husband and kids work on the ranch.

It's true that I had a bucolic, truly peaceful childhood, growing up in a house next to our family's orchard. We had a lot of books and art, but no electricity until I was eight years old. Since then, I have seen a lot of inner-city life, though.

I'm amazed now whenever I go back to London. I'm like, 'Wow. I used to kind of swing up these streets when I knew how this machine worked.' And then when you don't, you lose that. You need to get your license back. I do know how to plant a garden and keep chickens, but I don't know how to do much else.

There's something great about the idea of working the land and living communally. That's healthy. That's good.

I don't want my kids growing up to be city kids.

I'd like to start some form of city-type commune.