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“I can speak of slavery only so far as it came under my own observation - only so far as I have known and experienced it in my own person.”
Source : Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, Solomon Northup, Olaudah Equiano (2016). “Slave Narratives Compilation: Twelve Years A Slave, My Bondage and My Freedom, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, Narrative of Sojourner Truth: A Northern Slave”, p.330, ShandonPress
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“There might come a point where I don't want to be in this industry at all.”
Source : "Peter Andre: I don't regret my split with Katie Price being on reality TV" by Vicky Frost, www.theguardian.com. August 29, 2009.
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“When you're younger, your inspiration is there. As you get older, it tends to waver. Once you find it - I found it again - that's where you can draw from. That's where you draw your strength from.”
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“I'd love to play in, like, a 'Lord of the Rings,' or something like that, or a James Bond or, you know, just something like with action, shooting.”
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“I have sat through an Italian opera, til, for sheer pain, and inexplicable anguish, I have rushed out into the noisiest places of the crowded street, to solace myself with sounds which I was not obliged to follow and get rid of the distracting torment of endless, fruitless, barren attention!”
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“if you pursue the truth far enough you always wind up in the land of paradox. You reach a point where the apparent truth divides into two opposing truths and then you have to try to reach beyond them to grasp the ultimate truth, their synthesis.”
Source : Susan Howatch, Bruce Johnson, Charles Adolph Huttar (2005). “Scandalous Truths: Essays by and about Susan Howatch”, p.81, Susquehanna University Press
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“And I think it's a real challenge to be up there sometimes with only a keyboard if they don't have a grand piano... and to try to win people over that way. It's really hard.”
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“I love independent filmmaking. I don't agree with a lot of it, but that's the point.”