"The ideal condition would be, I admit, that men should be right by instinct; but since we are all likely to go astray, The reasonable thing is to learn from those who can teach"

“I think that being liberal, in the true sense, is being nondoctrinaire, nondogmatic, noncomitted to a cause but examining each case on its merits. Being left of center is another thing; it's a political position. I think most newspapermen by definition have to be liberal; if they're not liberal, by my definition of it, then they can hardly be good newspapermen.”

“No one ever chats me up; I think they all think I'm taken. Either that or no one fancies me.”

“I understand it's difficult but you've got to think about yourself, you know, and not just follow the crowd.”

Source : "Jermain Defoe: 'I wanted to put something back and stop all this youth violence'". Interview with Andrew Anthony, www.theguardian.com. April 7, 2012.

“It's through working with a lot of first-time directors that I realized that people learn on their feet. Everybody works on something for a different reason. Everybody has got something new to learn on these sets, and you don't have to know everything, the second you start.”

Source : "Jess Weixler and Director Jay Gammill Talk FREE SAMPLES, Making an Unpleasant Character Likeable, and Changes from the Script". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. May 29, 2013.

“Trust a girl of sixteen for knowing well if she is pretty; concerning her plainness she may be ignorant.”

“I love that New York City is a true melting pot.”

Source : "My New York: Stephanie Szostak". Interview with Lauren Valenti, www.elle.com. April 6, 2013.

“Thank you for your coffee, seignior. I shall miss that when we leave Casablanca.”

“You don't know me at all. You don't know the first thing about me. You don't know where I'm writing this from. You don't know what I look like. You have no power over me. What do you think I look like? Skinny? Freckles? Wire-rimmed glasses over brown eyes? No, I don't think so. Better look again. Deeper. It's like a kaleidoscope, isn't it? One minute I'm short, the next minute tall, one minute I'm geeky, one minute studly, my shape constantly changes, and the only thing that stays constant is my brown eyes. Watching you.”