"I signed contracts when I didn't know what that meant. I thought I'd get residuals off of the shows I've been on: History Channel, Discovery, Dateline, Johnny Carson, etc. It's the only regret I have in life. If I got residuals, I wouldn't be shucking oysters now, though I do love my job."

“I tell you that victory consists in conquering self. That is the greatest enemy.”

“What makes you different or weird, that's your strength.”

Source : "Meryl Streep's Advice to Women: Don't Worry So Much About Your Weight" by Natalie Matthews, www.elle.com. April 18, 2014.

“A part of my kind of design and inspiration ethos is that I carry around a leather notebook and I sketch in it, doodle in it, write notes in it, and I put pictures in it.”

Source : "So You Want to Be a Rockstar?". Interview with Kerry Pieri, www.harpersbazaar.com. December 5, 2013.

“1. Organize before they rise! 2. They feel no fear, why should you? 3. Use your head: cut off theirs. 4. Blades don't need reloading. 5. Ideal protection = tight clothes, short hair. 6. Get up the staircase, then destroy it. 7. Get out of the car, get onto the bike. 8. Keep moving, keep low, keep quiet, keep alert! 9. No place is safe, only safer. 10. The zombie may be gone, but the threat lives on.”

“Better never to have met you in my dream, than to wake and reach for hands that are not there.”

“One real world is enough.”

“We can't keep begging or expecting people to give us an opportunity to make a movie or to represent our culture in the right way. They're not from or neighborhoods and communities so of course they can't truly relate to our experience. It's our responsibility to properly protect our people and to properly give them opportunities for employment.”

“What a price we pay for experience, when we must sell our youth to buy it.”