"Sometimes I have no choice but to wear my hair and I try to make it look as normal as possible, but no, there's no chance."

“I was born in Massachusetts and lived there until I was thirteen years old.”

“I love playing strong feisty women, I really do, but if you were to ask my husband he'd probably say that I'm very insecure. And actually incredibly malleable, which isn't necessarily a good thing.”

Source : "Intensive care" by Barbara Ellen, www.theguardian.com. July 07, 2002.

“Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life.”

Source : Aphra Behn (1696). “The Younger Brother: Or, the Amorous Jilt. A Comedy ... Written by the Late Ingenious Mrs. A. Behn. With Some Account of Her Life. [Edited, with Alterations and a Memoir, by Charles Gildon.]”, p.30

“We seldom enjoy leisure we haven't earned.”

“We need to believe in a bright, compelling and sustainable future. Fear neither motivates people long-term nor brings out the best in them. Hope is a powerful motivator.”

“If we could muster the same determination and sense of responsibility that saves a country like Japan - or a company like Xerox - then investing to save women and children who are dying in the developing world would be very good business.”

“If you hear something you like, and you're halfway like the public, chances are they'll like it too.”

“Whatever instrument I play, I always try to keep it unreal.”