"Fate is not quite as strange as it appears!"

“Understand: the task of an activist is not to negotiate systems of power with as much personal integrity as possible--it's to dismantle those systems.”

Source : Lierre Keith (2009). “The Vegetarian Myth: Food, Justice, and Sustainability”, p.265, PM Press

“But I'd be lying if I didn't say that every time you go to make a film, you're desperate to either do it better than you did it last time or to not repeat yourself.”

Source : "Paul Thomas Anderson strikes cinematic oil". www.today.com. January 3, 2008.

“People can be unimaginably foolish...and they can be unimaginably grand, at times.”

“Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.”

Source : Pat Riley (1993). “Winner Within Success”, Putnam Publishing Group

“I don't wonder about anything. I'm too old to wonder. I think the most important thing is to wake-up with a pulse. I look in the obituary columns. If I'm not in it, I get out of bed.”

Source : "Julie Andrews and Hector Elizondo talk The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement". Interview with B. Alan Orange, movieweb.com. August 12, 2004.

“I've done stuff to pay my dues and that's what actors are supposed to do, because I was a really bad actor when I was 18 or 20.”

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

“Dogs are very different from cats in that they can be images of human virtue. They are like us.”

“I make my music at night when there's no noise... Just me, my headphones and the silence. But I'm always making music in my head. It's like a non-stop radio!”