"Once you enter the public's eye, you have to be aware that you give up a huge part of your own life."

“For no matter the shadows of an age, the picture of a young couple in love, we are told, speaks most luminously of the future, as the span of that passion makes us believe we can overleap any walls, obliterate whatever obstacles.”

Source : Chang-rae Lee (2014). “On Such a Full Sea: A Novel”, p.20, Penguin

“Those who hammer their guns into plows, will plow for those who do not.”

“Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.”

“What do women do when they get together? We sit around and talk! Men, not so much. My theory is that this difference is genetic and dates back to the hunter-gatherer societies, when the men had to be quiet as they hunted, lest they scare away the bison and then everyone starved to death and it was all their fault.”

Source : "Did You Say Something, Dear?" by Jenna McCarthy, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 6, 2011.

“My dad had this philosophy that if you tell children they're beautiful and wonderful then they believe it, and they will be. So I never thought I was unattractive. But I was never one of the girls at school who had lots of boyfriends.”

Source : "Woman on the verge". Interview with Stephanie Merritt, www.theguardian.com. December 2, 2001.

“Do I wish that things were more orderly in Washington and rational and people listened to the best arguments and compromised and operated in a more thoughtful and organized fashion? Absolutely. But when you look at history that's been the exception rather than the norm.”

“Television is like a great monster, eating your gags as fast as you say them.”

Source : "Dodd's Bolton Bonus". www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk. February 15, 2007.

“I have no ethics when it comes to art. You just do what you can to make it as beautiful as you can.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.