"I want to be remembered much more by a total vision than a few perfect single pictures."

“The joy of learning is as indispensable in study as breathing is in running.”

“I'd like to go the Cher route and act and sing and write and have a TV show and do it all.”

“Each step in life has been another step in an area that was a challenge, that is highly satisfying and that gives you a great sense of pride afterwards.”

“Were you to read the British press today, you would learn that the British Empire never forgets its defeats.”

“In patriarchal culture men are especially inclined to see love as something they should receive without expending effort. More often than not they do not want to do the work that love demands. When the practice of love invites us to enter a place of potential bliss that is at the same time a place of critical awakening and pain, many of us turn our backs on love.”

“Writing on your own is, in a way, a very lonely profession. There's no one there to help you.”

Source : "The Power of Two: Bonus Outtakes From WD Interview With Lincoln Child & Douglas Preston". Interview with Brian A. Klems, www.writersdigest.com. January 12, 2012.

“I dated a guy for over a year who lied about his age the entire time. I found out after the fact and couldn't believe it! I even threw him a birthday party for the wrong age... I couldn't get over how hard he had tried to keep it a secret!”

Source : "Meet The Lying Game's Kirsten Prout". Seventeen Interview, www.seventeen.com. August 13, 2011.

“It takes great technique, tremendous discipline and energy and practice, and damn few are capable. Art is confidence. Technique makes it possible to achieve artistic greatness, but doesn't guarantee it. The great piano artists are not the ones who are best playing Clementi exercises.”