"A true artist is driven by the never-ending desire to create."

“Everyone is looking for me to bring a gold back home, and a lot of people in other places are expecting me to win.”

“When you love the unlovable and forgive the unforgivable, you’re free.”

“Show respect to people who don't deserve it. Not as a reflection of their character, but of yours.”

“After moving to New York, I started to love vintage shopping.”

“There was the period where I wanted to be a therapist, if the acting thing didn't work. That was pretty much it. I don't know why. I was just always the girl that people would come and talk to about their problems.”

“Given that most movies are bad, and that there are whole categories and sub-categories of badness - the sequel, the Madonna Movie, the Friday 13th Series, or Movies Starring John Travolta Before Pulp Fiction - it is almost impossible to choose a single film for worst movie of all time. But strangely, I do have a nomination and I believe it is actually the worst movie ever made. It is Boxing Helena. The director is David Lynch's daughter, and the film comes with the almost insane-making faults that the family connection might imply.”

Source : "If I'd made that, I'd change my name". www.theguardian.com. July 1, 2004.

“Without international participation, jobs and emissions will simply shift overseas to countries that require few, if any, environmental protections, harming the global environment as well as the U.S. economy.”

“How much more courage it took to be kind than to be cruel.”

Source : Louise Penny (2013). “How the Light Gets In: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel”, p.16, Macmillan