It's fantastic to strive towards a nice life where you eat nice organic food and your children go to a nice school and you can afford nice clothes and nice perfume and the hypoallergenic make-up. But there's never a day goes by, and I mean this from the bottom of my heart, that I don't think about where I'm from.

?There are books full of great writing that don't have very good stories. Read sometimes for the story... don't be like the book-snobs who won't do that. Read sometimes for the words--the language. Don't be like the play-it-safers who won't do that. But when you find a book that has both a good story and good words, treasure that book. ?

Stephen King

There is only one thing I respect in so-called Broadway actors... and that is their competitive sense.

Elia Kazan

I was the Chair of the first department of medical physics in a medical school in the U.S.

John Cameron

I don't believe in it. All writing is difficult. The most you can hope for is a day when it goes reasonably easily. Plumbers don't get plumber's block, and doctors don't get doctor's block; why should writers be the only profession that gives a special name to the difficulty of working, and then expects sympathy for it?http://www.philip-pullman.com/about_the_writing.asp

Philip Pullman, answering What d

Ignorance is the peace of life.

Proverb

But it's cool working with female directors because I'm a girl, so you do relate to them more. You can talk to them about other stuff like clothes and all that.

Elle Fanning

The covers of this book are too far apart.

Ambrose Bierce

Only reason can convince us of those three fundamental truths without a recognition of which there can be no effective liberty: that what we believe is not necessarily true; that what we like is not necessarily good; and that all questions are open.

Clive Bell

Kindness, a language deaf people can hear and blind see

Source Unknown

Be certain, Catelyn told her son, or go home and take up that wooden sword again. You cannot afford to seem indecisive in front of men like Roose Bolton and Rickard Karstark. Make no mistake, Robb-these are your bannermen, not your friends. You named yourself battle commander. Command.

George R.R. Martin

Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.

Benjamin Franklin

Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious - friendship and learning.

Jane Harrison