A friend of my mom's was a casting director so, really as kind of a lark, I had a couple of acting jobs that had just enough exposure to give me the option to continue if I wanted to. I followed through with it.

My father loved people, children and pets.

Tony Visconti

I really like to look like a history book. I can look 1940s, I can look 1970s hippie-chic, or sometimes I'll pull that '80s Brooklyn hip-hop kid with the door-knocker earrings.

Katy Perry

Why does everyone run toward a blood curdling scream? mumbled the Senior Wrangler. It is contrary to all sense.

Terry Pratchett

Good enough never is

Debbi Fields

Today the network of relationships linking the human race to itself and to the rest of the biosphere is so complex that all aspects affect all others to an extraordinary degree. Someone should be studying the whole system, however crudely that has to be done, because no gluing together of partial studies of a complex nonlinear system can give a good idea of the behavior of the whole.

Murray Gell-Mann

It's a funny thing because you look at the careers of other filmmakers, and you see them sort of slow down, and you realize, maybe this becomes harder to do as you get older. That's sort of a cautionary thing. I hope it doesn't happen to me.

Joel Coen

People who wait for changes to occur on the outside before they commit to making changes on the inside will never make any changes at all.

Source Unknown

The simplest metaphors be the dope.

Jay Electronica

The history of all the great characters of the Bible is summed up in this one sentence: They acquainted themselves with God, and acquiesced His will in all things.

Richard Cecil

Taxes, are the dues that we pay for the privileges of membership in an organized society.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent.

Napoleon Hill

Data is what distinguishes the dilettante from the artist.

George V. Higgins