Yana Valencia-Campo

I’m Columbian, extreme passions are in my blood.

Beauty is what everything is attracted to. Beauty is what will save the world.

If a person makes the wrong choice — he loses his beauty.

I really like the theory that says that all people are only six handshakes away from each other.

I bow before the people I can learn from.

Problems don’t just appear out of nowhere. One either attracts them, or makes them up himself. You have to analyze yourself and be ready to face the truth.

I can’t understand it when two people in a couple say they don’t fight. It feels to me like they’re dissembling when they say so.

I always stick with my own opinion. Arguing is an unrewarding thing to do. I go with delicacy.

Truth is the best weapon.

Someone said “there’s time to love and time to work”. Just like me. I’m unipolar: I can either work or love.

When two people fall in love and start dating, it’s crucial that they believe they’re going to die on the same day.
If a man can dance, it means I already like him.

When I’m old, I’m going to get myself a potter’s wheel and a kiln. I like working with my hands and creating ceramic vessels of different shapes.

I’m possessive to the bone. My life, my family… my mug, my spoon (laughs).

Moscow’s got everything: the poshest restaurants, the most popular clubs, skyscrapers and boutiques… But what it doesn’t have is the really coolest stuff. You can’t walk out in the street wearing stretched pants and with your hair in a mess, drop in on a merchant who you’ve known for ages to buy a loaf of

French baguette, and sit in some quiet little yard, chatting cosily with hearty neighbors…

In the Soviet Union and in Russia too, it’s always been girlfriends and friends to play the role of psychoanalysts.