"Never give up! Keep practicing - it's the only way to get better. But don't lose sight of the outside world. As an artist, you have to connect with the world around you, or you've got nothing to inspire you. Learn from everything and everyone, good or bad. It's just as important to learn what not to do, as well as what to do, in art, in life."

“Keep strong if possible; in any case, keep cool.”

“So a part of you is broken when that’s gone. And part of you wants to have that rebellious feeling where you’re just like, forget it — I can do anything I want. I’ve tried it, and I’ve never been that girl. I’m always going to be the girl you want to take home to your parents, not for the night.”

“Look, just stop trying to annihilate yourself, okay? Because if I think you can do it, I'll make Doc pull me out today. Or I'll tell Jared. Just imagine what he would do. I imagined it for her, smiling a little through my tears. Remeber? He said no guarantees about what he would or wouldn't do to keep you here. I though of those buring kisses in the hall...thought of other kisses and other nights in her memory. My face warmed as I blushed. You fight dirty. You bet I do.”

“There is a saying that every nice piece of work needs the right person in the right place at the right time.”

Source : "A Theory of Roughness". Interview with John Brockman, www.edge.org. December 20, 2004.

“A period is just the beginning of a lifelong sentence”

“Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.”

Source : "Philomena interview: Steve Coogan". www.sbs.com.au. December 28, 2013.

“Even though we now have the half-century-old new Constitution, there is a popular sentiment of support for the old one that lives on in reality in some quarters.”

“I've always said we got married because there was nothing on TV.”