"I'll take your breath any way you give it to me, Shura."

“I always save a huge book for a flight, because then you read it at both airports and on the plane and by the time you get home you're a quarter of the way through and it doesn't feel so unmanageable any more.”

Source : "Ned Beauman: 'What sticks in my mind is praise from the wrong people'". Interview with Gemma Kappala-Ramsamy, www.theguardian.com. July 21, 2012.

“The wolf stared down at me, paws still on my chest, its shaggy tail thumping from side tot side and spraying us both with snow. It seemed like...it expected me to do something. Maybe my mind was completley gone, because there was only one thing I could thing of right now that might satisfy it. I reached up en awkwardly patted the side of its head, since that was al i could reach. "Nice puppy," I whispered, and passed out.”

“It does take a long time and a lot of paint to become our own artist.”

“I think it's good for moms to work. I have three daughters, so I like them to see me working and doing something I'm passionate about.”

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

“You’re never ready for the truth. No matter how much you think you know, it always takes you by surprise.”

“My daughter, I'm proud to say, is senior vice president of ABC Family network. She could hire and fire me. She has hired me, but she has not fired me.”

“I think the studio gave me that series on purpose, because they knew perfectly well that Robert Riskin was ill and that I needed to go to work. They gave me that series to do.”

“We are what we imagine. Our very existence consists in our imagination of ourselves. Our best destiny is to imagine, at least, completely, who and what, and that we are. The greatest tragedy that can befall us is to go unimagined.”