"Let them hate me provided they fear me"

“When you’re in school, every little mistake is a permanent crack in your windshield. But in the real world, if you’re not swerving around and hitting the guard rails every now and then, you’re not going fast enough. Your biggest risk isn’t failing; it’s getting too comfortable.”

“Someone once told me: 'Luck is when opportunity meets preparation'. And that's what I really feel with my music. I've worked really, really hard on it. It was like, 'this is really what I want to do.. what do I have to do to make it work?'”

“Men become superstitious, not because they have too much imagination, but because they are not aware that they have any.”

“We are bound by the secrets we share.”

Source : "Notes on a Scandal". www.imdb.com. 2006.

“Were way overdue on a woman sitting in one of those Big Three chairs.”

“God is the Absolute Idea, a circle that returns upon itself, not a straight line projected indefinitely.”

Source : Joseph Alexander Leighton (1901). “Typical Modern Conceptions of God: Or, The Absolute of German Romantic Idealism and of English Evolutionary Agnosticism, with a Constructive Essay”

“Under the bludgeonings of chance My head is bloody, but unbowed.”

“I remember being married to John Barry and trying to be the best wife in the world.”