"Is listening important? I can't think of a single walk of life where it wouldn't be."

“I look for struggle in the roles I choose - struggle and perseverance.”

Source : Interview with Sean O'Neal, film.avclub.com. March 30, 2011.

“Scientists and scholars should constitute themselves as an international NGO of exceptional authority.”

“You have to be what you are. Whatever you are, you gotta be it.”

Source : "Alone with the Man in Black". Interview with Louisa Young, www.theguardian.com. September 17, 2003.

“A recurring image in the work of the Rossetti circle was that of a woman absorbed in self-contemplation, gazing into a mirror or combing her hair.”

Source : Elizabeth Prettejohn (1998). “Rossetti and His Circle”, Stewart Tabori & Chang

“We Jews had more power than you Americans had during the War [World War I].”

“Education in the past has been too much inspiration and too little information.”

“People forget that old women were young once, but d'you think we old women forget? In my heart, I'm still thirty.”

“A striking feature of financial service activities during the past few decades is that the financial transactions essential to the operation of the 'real' economy has become increasingly dwarfed by speculative activity.”

Source : Peter Dicken (2003). “Global Shift: Reshaping the Global Economic Map in the 21st Century”, p.469, SAGE