"Human beings are mercifully so constituted as to be able to conceal from themselves what they intend to do until they are well into the doing of it."

“I made the mistake of writing something very, very short about Obama for this website that I write fiction for, and my father told me never do that again. And he was right. I have nothing to add to a political conversation because it's not my area.”

“It’s tricky when you’re doing a recording, because the only weapon you have is your voice and the delivery of that voice. You don’t have a gesture or a facial expression, there are no costumes or set pieces. Everything needs to be present in the voice.”

Source : "Drama Queens : A Conversation With Mezzo-Soprano Joyce DiDonato". Interview with Sean Martinfield, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 19, 2012.

“I was a competitive swimmer in middle school and high school.”

“Screw it, just do it!”

“HATE. LET ME TELL YOU HOW MUCH I'VE COME TO HATE YOU SINCE I BEGAN TO LIVE. THERE ARE 387.44 MILLION MILES OF PRINTED CIRCUITS IN WAFER THIN LAYERS THAT FILL MY COMPLEX. IF THE WORD HATE WAS ENGRAVED ON EACH NANOANGSTROM OF THOSE HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF MILES IT WOULD NOT EQUAL ONE ONE-BILLIONTH OF THE HATE I FEEL FOR HUMANS AT THIS MICRO-INSTANT FOR YOU. HATE. HATE.”

“I've always been attracted to action stuff.”

“So cartooning, for me, is an honorable thing. It's pushing the envelope. It's the truth of something through exaggeration”

“I think it's cooler when girls have favorite pieces of clothing rather than an entirely new wardrobe every few months.”

Source : "Model Cameron Russell Doesn't Pull Together Outfits, She Lets Them Collapse!". Interview with Melody Nazarian, www.popsugar.com. November 4, 2010.