"Husband and wife,--so much in common, how different in type! Such a contrast, and yet such harmony, strength and weakness blended together!"

“You can't have good ideas unless you have lots of ideas.”

“I'm not good at math. Numbers are a terrifying thing to me. My father is a whiz with money and the stock market, and he tries to explain it to me, and I find it terrifying.”

“As an actor, I have casting issues. I'm a minority. I don't have trouble making a living, but as far as being on the food chain of the pecking order of actors, I'm not at the top of it. With the jobs that I do, there are always control issues with directors and producers.”

“But why, why, why can't people just say what they mean?”

Source : Graeme Simsion (2014). “The Rosie Project: A Novel”, p.122, Simon and Schuster

“A writing teacher once told me that the most successful movies and books were simple plots about complex characters. You should be able to articulate your concept in a couple of lines.”

“I wanted to be a movie star. But movie stars are not what they used to be.”

“As you embrace the process-oriented approach described in The Practicing Mind, you'll achieve better results in any endeavor.”

“It is much easier to settle a point than to act on it.”

Source : Richard Cecil, Josiah Pratt (1825). “The Works of Richard Cecil: With a Memoir of His Life”, p.414