"An artist must forget painting when he paints. That's the only way he will do original work."

“Don’t use your conscious past. Use your creative imagination to create a past that belongs to your character. I don’t want you to be stuck with your own life. It’s too little.”

“In many ways, constancy is an illusion. After all, our ancestors were immigrants, many of them moving on every few years; today we are migrants in time. Unless teachers can hold up a model of lifelong learning and adaptation, graduates are likely to find themselves trapped into obsolescence as the world changes around them. Of any stopping place in life, it is good to ask whether it will be a good place from which to go on as well as a good place to remain.”

“Everybody knows they're on the Obama team: There isn't vice presidential vs. presidential division, there's not a generational pull. People have internalized that this is a real moment in history.”

“Soap opera seems to be a dirty word, but actually they are the most popular shows we have. People want to know what happens next, people hate the villains and love the lovers. It's good, fun TV. But I wouldn't call 'Downton' a soap opera as such.”

“What Americans cant face is that one of the reasons that the Russians and the Chinese were so impressed with us during the Cold War was the fact that Nixon and Kissinger went on bombing despite public reaction.”

“I think children are like pancakes: You sort of ruin the first one, and you get better at it the second time around.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

“It is the opposite of ignorance—it is intellectual honesty: to be willing to accept reality and to call things what they are even when it is hard.”

Source : Todd Burpo (2014). “Heaven is for Real Movie Edition: A Little Boy's Astounding Story of His Trip to Heaven and Back”, p.75, Thomas Nelson Inc

“Scandal has a thousand stringers; good news doesn't know the editor's phone number.”