"The important thing right now is that the economy still needs customers. We still need people to go out there and spend money."

“My dear husband, Richard, has been the driving force behind my success and rise to whatever level I am now. My story and legacy is incomplete without his mention.”

“I mean, I've always had scattered interests, but I never went on stage to get an agent or anything like that”

“I've never found anything to be lacking in a blurry canvas. Quite the contrary: you can see many more things in it than in a sharply focused image. A landscape painted with exactness forces you to see a determined number of clearly differentiated trees, while in a blurry canvas you can perceive as many trees as you want. The painting is more open.”

Source : Gerhard Richter, Dietmar Elger, Hans-Ulrich Obrist (2009). “Gerhard Richter: writings 1961-2007”, Distributed Art Pub Inc

“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.”

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

“I have expertise in five different fields which helps me to easily understand the analogy between my scientific problems and those occurring in nature.”

“I read a script or I read a project or I read a novel and I know that I'm going to spend two to three years of my life with that, exclusively. So you better like it. There better be an honorable, real need to make that movie.”

“As far as writing, it's grown because I've really grown comfortable with who I am.”

“The free electoral process is one of the things that outsiders envy most about this country.The distinctly American two-party system is perpetuated through that process.”

Source : Inauguration Speech at the Mayor & Council Meeting, January 2009.