"I think that's part of the fun of being an actor - you get to not be normal all of the time."

“If you have laser-like brain it's not always focused on the most productive things. If you want to play Halo: Reach all day, that's fine, but if you want to accomplish some other things, here are some ways to do that using your innate nerd gifts.”

Source : Richard Stallman (2002). “Free Software, Free Society: Selected Essays of Richard M. Stallman”, p.75, Lulu.com

“I have short goals - to get better every day, to help my teammates every day - but my only ultimate goal is to win an NBA championship. It's all that matters. I dream about it. I dream about it all the time, how it would look, how it would feel. It would be so amazing.”

“It's pure instinct that makes me rebel every time someone tries to control my life and hand out more rules.”

Source : Simone Elkeles (2011). “Rules of Attraction”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

“I dreamed of Crusades, voyages of discovery that nobody had heard of, republics without histories, religious wars stamped out, revolutions in morals, movements of races and continents; I used to believe in every kind of magic. I began it as an investigation. I turned silences and nights into words. What was unutterable, I wrote down. I made the whirling world stand still.”

“If a man confessed anything on his death bed, it was the truth; for no man could stare death in the face and lie.”

“Tailor's work--the finishing of men's outside garments--was the "trade" learned most frequently by women in [the 1820s and 1830s],and one or more of my older sisters worked at it; I think it must have been at home, for I somehow or somewhere got the idea, while I was a small child, that the chief end of woman was to make clothing for mankind.”

“My desire is to stand by the fire that burns inside of you.”

“Nothing is so common as to see a political upheaval pass practically unnoticed merely because the names of the leaders and their parties remain the same.”

Source : "Music, Ho!". Book by Constant Lambert, "The Revolutionary Situation", p. 31, 1934.