"In America you can say anything you want - as long as it doesn't have any effect."

“I'm a huge fan of good, procedural-type shows on television... there are a lot of roles for women. But there aren't a lot of great network television roles for girls that will let you start a character in one place and finish up with her in a totally different one.”

“I live part-time in a cabin in Colorado up in the mountains and part-time on a ranch in central Texas - but do I really know how to go brand a cow, or do I really know how to go rappelling down a cliff? No. I do the recreational, half-assed version of all these manly activities and then try to keep that kind of Zen masculinity, like, "I'm a man of nature."”

“Hey, people who travel with their bed pillow. You look insane.”

“Film is shot in fragments, and the same moments can be shot again and again until the director is satisfied.”

“Most people stiffen with self-consciousness when they pose for a photograph. Lighting and fine camera equipment are useless if the photographer cannot make them drop the mask, at least for a moment, so he can capture on his film their real, undistorted personality and character.”

“The jocks that used to stuff me into a locker when I was a punk rocker are my best buddies now.”

Source : "Author Jonathan Evison on loss, survival and life’s epic journeys". Interview with Mary Ann Gwinn, www.seattletimes.com. September 24, 2012.

“The most important lesson I've learned from sports is how to be not only a gracious winner, but a good loser as well. Not everyone wins all the time, as a matter of fact, no one wins all the time. Winning is the easy part, losing is really tough. But, you learn more from one loss than you do from a million wins. You learn a lot about sportsmanship.”

Source : "Captain Corelli's Mandolin : Interview With Penélope Cruz". www.cinema.com. 2001.

“Such was the wreck of the Hesperus, In the midnight and the snow! Christ save us all from a death like this, On the reef of Norman's Woe!”