"You cannot win a game of tug-o-war by merely standing firm."

“Alone is a much better film than House of the Dead and better than most horror movies out today.”

“I am at my core a singer/songwriter a la James Taylor or a la Billy Joel. It's not that I don't want to work with people, but I do just love doing my own thing.”

Source : Cornelia Otis Skinner (1948). “That's Me All Over: All the Favorite Absurdities from Dithers and Jitters, Soap Behind the Ears, and Excuse It, Please! Along with Tiny Garments”

“The anger of slow, mild, loving people has a lasting quality that mere bad-tempered folk cannot understand.”

“To be pleased at correction and reproofs shows that one loves the virtues which are contrary to those faults for which he is corrected and reproved. And, therefore, it is a great sign of advancement in perfection.”

“London is one of the world's centres of Arab journalism and political activism. The failure of left and right, the establishment and its opposition, to mount principled arguments against clerical reaction has had global ramifications. Ideas minted in Britain – the notion that it is bigoted to oppose bigotry; 'Islamophobic' to oppose clerics whose first desire is to oppress Muslims – swirl out through the press and the net to lands where they can do real harm.”

Source : "At last, Islam's appeasers may be on the run" by Nick Cohen, www.theguardian.com. February 5, 2011.

“I love going to movies. It's just big, it takes you away, you can escape into it.”

“I will always be as difficult as necessary to achieve the best,”

“People will do amazing things to ensure their survival.”