"My mother found a way out of a little one-bedroom apartment in Athens, Greece to bring Arianna to Cambridge to study economics and bring me to the Royal Academy in London with very few financial resources and no connections. She didn't know anybody in England, but she found a way. Her love for her daughters and seeing what they could be, motivated her and gave her the chutzpah, the courage, to break down barriers. When you have the motivation of love, you will find the way."

“I started to act in highschool and became a professional actor at 19.”

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

“The thing that excites me, and the thing that excited me about Twitter, is the idea of a flock of birds moving around an object in flight.”

“Years from now, when cinephiles are asked to name the movies' golden age, they'll say it was when Cate Blanchett was in them.”

Source : "The 2007 TIME 100: Cate Blanchett" by Richard Corliss, content.time.com. May 3, 2007.

“It's essential to distinguish between events that are really beyond your control and events you caused yourself.”

“I'm still James Johnson. Rick James is a stage name. James Johnson keeps Rick James on the ground... Kind of sort of.”

Source : FaceBook post by Rick James from Jan 26, 2012

“I don't remember being a keen reader, but apparently I was. My aunt told me that whenever I was teased for reading, I would say, "To each his own."”

“We are inescapably the result of a long heritage of learning, adaptation, mutation and evolution, the product of a history which predates our birth as a biological species and stretches back over many thousand millennia... Going further back, we share a common ancestry with our fellow primates; and going still further back, we share a common ancestry with all other living creatures and plants down to the simplest microbe. The further back we go, the greater the difference from external appearances and behavior patterns which we observe today.”

Source : "Lifecloud: The Origin of Life in the Universe". Book by Chandra Wickramasinghe and Fred Hoyle (p. 15), 1978.

“He reached across and fingered the pendant; I felt it move against my skin. "Willow, look," He said. "We haven't talked much about what might happen, but...you know that I always want to be with you, right? I mean--no matter what." And I had known it; I felt it every time he held me--but even so, actually hearing the words made my heart catch. "I want that, too," I said. "Always, Alex.”

Source : L.A. Weatherly (2010). “Angel: The Angel Trilogy”, p.192, Usborne Publishing Ltd