"She never inquired, but she never recoiled, either. This is a quality that I look for in a person, not recoiling."

“I spent my whole life figuring out how to get out of work. I would say I was intelligent, but intelligent in a very surreptitious, invisible way.”

Source : Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. April 28, 2003.

“A temptation arises: it is the wind. It disturbs you: it is the surging of the seas. This is the time to awaken Christ and let Him remind you of these words”

“All the beautiful things in this world are lies. They count for nothing in the end.”

“I think there is a legitimate critique of reformism, as a politics that is content with making small changes in society without asking for bigger and deeper changes. And revolutionary reforms, meaning actions that we take in small ways to make the world a better place and disrupt some of the ways that capitalism is reproduced.”

Source : Source: www.counterpunch.org

“Grit is not just simple elbow-grease term for rugged persistence. It is an often invisible display of endurance that lets you stay in an uncomfortable place, work hard to improve upon a given interest, and do it again and again.”

Source : Sarah Lewis (2014). “The Rise: Creativity, the Gift of Failure, and the Search for Mastery”, p.169, Simon and Schuster

“I've never felt like - part of the entertainment industry. I still just feel like I'm trying to work my way in. And that's weird.”

“And remember, every pound you give leaves you a pound poorer.”

“A little integrity is better than any career.”