When I was a little kid, all I wanted to do was to escape what I thought was the country and get to a city. Probably film and television had influenced me so much, I really thought the key to happiness was living a very artificial life in a penthouse in New York with martini glasses.

The mould of a man's fortune is in his own hands.

Francis Bacon

Producing is so exciting because you can enable things to happen, whether it's like discovering a filmmaker who you're taking a chance on, protecting a battle and driving home at the end of the day just going, 'I'm so glad I stayed late at work and fought hard for that. Had my passion. Won that battle.'

Drew Barrymore

Sleep is an eight-hour peep show of infantile erotica.

J. G. Ballard

It was books that made me feel that perhaps I was not completely alone. They could be honest with me, and I with them.

Cassandra Clare

We lov'd, and we lov'd as long as we couldTil our love was lov'd out in us both;But our marriage is dead, when the pleasure has fled:'Twas pleasure that made it an oath.

John Dryden, Marriage

I can definitely tell when mum has got money because then she likes to go shopping to spend it, whereas dad is steadier and avoids splurges. I like to think I've inherited both sides.

Sophie Ellis-Bextor

But Freedom Strike was actually quite cool.

Tone Loc

The open frontier, the hardships of homesteading from scratch, the wealth of natural resources, the whole vast challenge of a continent waiting to be exploited, combined to produce a prevailing materialism and an American drive bent as much, if not more, on money, property, and power than was true of the Old World from which we had fled.

Barbara Tuchman

Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.

Aristotle

Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness.

Faith Baldwin

When you explore your fears then you set yourself free.

Stephen Richards