"If everyone thinks you have a good idea, you´re too late"

“Bankers, nepotists, contracts and talkies: on four fingers one may count the leeches which have sucked a young and vigorous industry into paresis.”

“Parents. Honestly. Sometimes they really do think the world revolves around them.”

Source : Randa Abdel-Fattah (2014). “Does My Head Look Big in This?”, p.29, Scholastic UK

“The grace that brought salvation to you is the same grace that teaches or disciplines you. But you must respond on the basis of grace, not law.”

“You really can't turn on TLC without seeing us.”

“I wonder whether my bleak-o-meter is set differently from other people's. I have such passion for what I do that I can't see it as bleak. When people use that word, or “grim” or “gritty,” I just think, “Oh, come on, look a bit deeper.” My films don't give you an easy ride. I can see that. The sense I get is that people have quite a physical experience with them. They feel afterwards that they've really been through something.”

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

“Of course the biggest mafia in Russia has always been the government; in Soviet times, the Communist Party, and now a circle of former KGB and FSB.”

“This bill reminds me of the tactics of the former Soviet Union and we know how successful that was.”

Source : "House Passes Sweeping Food Safety Bill". Kathryn A. Wolfe, Congressional Quarterly, July 30, 2009.

“Not one country in all the world has eliminated its economic participation [gender] gap - not one.”