While other industries have suffered, the nonprofit arts world continues to build in strength while it encourages the growth of innumerable small businesses on its periphery, thereby creating more jobs.

I want to see beauty. In the ugly, in the sink, in the suffering, in the daily, in all the days before I die, the moments before I sleep.

Ann Voskamp

Human reason needs only to will more strongly than fate, and she is fate.

Thomas Mann

I prefer to make up my own quotes and attribute them to very smart people, so that I can use them to win arguments

Albert Einstein

You may drive out nature with a pitchfork, yet she'll be constantly running back.

Horace

The essence of a free government consists in an effectual control of rivalries.

John Adams

It is brilliant going to the theatre and being forced to sit and listen and think about life. It can be almost a near-religious experience.

Emily Mortimer

There's too much darkness in the world. Everywhere you turn, someone is tryin' to tear someone down in some way; everywhere you go, there's a feeling of inadequacy, or a feeling that you're not good enough. I want to bring a certain light to the world.

Alicia Keys

A principle is the expression of perfection, and as imperfect beings like us cannot practise perfection, we devise every moment limits of its compromise in practice.

Mahatma Gandhi

We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

When you go off in the world and make your life, and you come back to your home town, and you find your old high-school friends driving in the same circles, doing the same things, that's what Hollywood's like. It's a little block, little town. It doesn't really grow or change.

Robert Rodriguez

For an adult, eating alone at McDonald's is admitting a kind of defeat.

Jonathan Carroll

The thing about sports movies is, they can't help but feel epic - putting music to images, etc.

Lindsey Shaw