"Youth is beautiful; its friendship is precious; the intercourse with it is a purifying release from the worn and stained harness of older life."

“What is free time? I'm a single mother. My free moments are filled with loving my little girl.”

“Most people will solve the problems they know how to solve. Roughly speaking they will solve B+ problems instead of A+ problems. A+ problems are high impact problems for your company but they're difficult problems.”

“It's just such an honor to say that I was in something by Steven Spielberg. I feel so blessed I got to meet such great people, and I got to go to a beautiful place, Vancouver, and I had a great time.”

“As soon as you start focusing on the negative you're dead.”

“Mothers are generally starvers or feeders”

“I have less time, less tolerance for bullshit, more interest in good taste, more confidence in my own judgement. The culture with which I surround myself is a reflection of my personality and the circumstances of my life, which is in part how it should be.”

Source : Nick Hornby (2003). “Songbook”, p.22, Penguin

“I have always felt that the action most worth watching is not at the center of things but where edges meet. I like shorelines, weather fronts, international borders. There are interesting frictions and incongruities in these places, and often, if you stand at the point of tangency, you can see both sides better than if you were in the middle of either one.”

Source : Anne Fadiman (1998). “The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures”, p.8, Macmillan

“Being a child star is great. It's being a former child star that sucks.”

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