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Daily Inspiration Quote by Mira Sorvino

"It's the relationships between people that are more important than the sort of far away fantasies of what the good life is, the world of supermodels and Bud ads"

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Sorvino’s line lands like a pin in the glossy balloon of late-20th-century aspiration: the “good life” sold back to us as distance, polish, and a permanent state of being wanted. By calling it “far away fantasies,” she exposes how advertising works not by describing reality but by placing desire just out of reach. “Supermodels and Bud ads” is a deliberately mismatched pairing - high-fashion allure stapled to mass-market beer - and that’s the point. The fantasy isn’t even coherent; it’s a collage of signals that all mean the same thing: you’re not enough yet.

The intent is quietly defiant. Sorvino isn’t romanticizing relationships as soft-focus salvation; she’s making a practical claim about where meaning actually accrues. Relationships are local, messy, reciprocated. They demand presence rather than consumption. The subtext is feminist without waving a banner: the supermodel world is a stage where women are often props, and the “good life” becomes something you watch, buy, and perform rather than build.

Context matters here: an actress speaking from inside an industry that manufactures fantasies for a living. That gives the quote its edge. It’s not an outsider scolding culture; it’s someone who knows how the image-machine flatters and hollows. The rhetoric is simple, almost conversational, which is why it works: it refuses the language of branding and replaces it with the oldest metric of value - who shows up for you when the ad ends.

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APA Style (7th ed.)
Sorvino, Mira. (2026, January 15). It's the relationships between people that are more important than the sort of far away fantasies of what the good life is, the world of supermodels and Bud ads. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/its-the-relationships-between-people-that-are-153883/

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Sorvino, Mira. "It's the relationships between people that are more important than the sort of far away fantasies of what the good life is, the world of supermodels and Bud ads." FixQuotes. January 15, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/its-the-relationships-between-people-that-are-153883/.

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"It's the relationships between people that are more important than the sort of far away fantasies of what the good life is, the world of supermodels and Bud ads." FixQuotes, 15 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/its-the-relationships-between-people-that-are-153883/. Accessed 13 Feb. 2026.

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Mira Sorvino (born September 28, 1970) is a Actress from USA.

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