"Don't kiss me like a woman if you're going to treat me like a child."

“Once your film is done, you can't explain to people what something was supposed to be. You can't give them footnotes. It all has to be there.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

“With optimism, you look upon the sunny side of things. People say, 'Studs, you're an optimist.' I never said I was an optimist. I have hope because what's the alternative to hope? Despair? If you have despair, you might as well put your head in the oven.”

“What I observed in western Azerbaijan, among the small portion of the nearly one million Azerbaijanis who were displaced by the conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh two decades ago, are a people who are aching to return to their homes.”

“The mere lapse of years is not life. To eat, to drink, and sleep; to be exposed to darkness and the light; to pace around in the mill of habit, and turn thought into an instrument of trade-this is not life. Knowledge, truth, love, beauty, goodness, faith, alone can give vitality to the mechanism of existence.”

“Well, it has been my dream since I was very little to be able to sing, dance and act all in one project so in Make It Pop I was able to do that all that.”

“I grew up in Michigan, so I played hockey, football and basketball. I played a little bit of lacrosse, too. My brother played more lacrosse and ran track.”

“I hope to make a positive, productive contribution, as cheesy as that may sound.”

Source : "Chelsea Clinton, Living Up to the Family Name" by Amy Chozick, www.nytimes.com. December 3, 2011.

“Being terrified but going ahead and doing what must be done—that's courage. The one who feels no fear is a fool, and the one who lets fear rule him is a coward.”

Source : Piers Anthony (2002). “Castle Roogna”, p.46, Del Rey