I'm asked all the time in interviews about who I am, and I know a few people my age who have a strong sense of self, but I couldn't say I know myself and sum it up and give it to you in a little package. I don't know myself at all yet.

Each of the professions means a prejudice. The necessity for a career forces every one to take sides. We live in the age of the overworked, and the under-educated; the age in which people are so industrious that they become absolutely stupid.

Oscar Wilde

Their understanding Begins to swell and the approaching tide Will shortly fill the reasonable shores That now lie foul and muddy.

William Shakespeare

I think that the romantic impulse is in all of us and that sometimes we live it for a short time, but it's not part of a sensible way of living. It's a heroic path and it generally ends dangerously. I treasure it in the sense that I believe it's a path of great courage. It can also be the path of the foolhardy and the compulsive.

Jane Campion

Bowed by the weight of centuries he leansUpon his hoe and gazes on the ground,The emptiness of ages in his face,And on his back the burden of the world.Who made him dead to rapture and despair,A thing that grieves not and that never hopes,Stolid and stunned, a brother to the ox?Who loosened and let down this brutal jaw?Whose was the hand that slanted back this brow?Whose breath blew out the light within this brain?

Edwin Markham, The Man with the

I do have a side of me that would just love to be stuck in the woods and have to stick it out and be really resourceful.

Rachel McAdams

Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly.

Plato

Neglect of appearance becomes men.

Ovid

Positive thinking is the key to success in business, education, pro football, anything that you can mention. I go out there thinking that I'm going to complete every pass.

Ron Jaworski

To be what no one ever was,To be what everyone has been:Freedom is the mean of thoseExtremes that fence all effort in.

Mark Van Doren

You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom.

Clarence Darrow

I'm cool with where I'm at. It's certain things I wanna do to be better, but I'm good.

Jazmine Sullivan

Older women are like aging strudels - the crust may not be so lovely, but the filling has come at last into its own.

Robert Farrar Capon