"The beauty of all these years of singing the anthem is that I got a chance to meet athletes that I love, and there was a mutual respect."

“I realized that was what was happening in my work already. I think that's where, as artists, we begin to master our craft: when we're able to step back and understand things.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

“It really is a nice theory. The only defect I think it has is probably common to all philosophical theories. It's wrong.”

“Jon Hamm is incredibly good at playing people who have secrets and are hiding aspects of their personality, and obviously Don Draper had a lot of that.”

Source : Source: collider.com

“It's the things we love most that destroy us.”

Source : "Fictional character: President Snow". "The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - part 1", 2014.

“Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.”

“My motto is: write about anything you bloody well like; just make sure you do it effectively. We've all had all the emotions, the rest is research and that leap which some can do and others cannot - it's not really something you can learn, otherwise all academics of literature would be wonderful fiction writers.”

“It is certainly a good thing always to forgive with generosity, but it is no doubt just never to forget the wrongs received: they belong to the route that leads to inner maturity.”

Source : "Simply Transcribed. Quotations from Fausto Cercignani". Book by Brian Morris, p. 21, 2013.

“Clearly Democrats are not united in what is the critique of what we're doing there and what is the answer to what we do next. The difficulty of coming to a unified position is that for a lot of people who voted for it, they have to decide whether they can admit that they were misled.”