I love a beautiful gown on stage, and luckily I've been fortunate to wear some amazing dresses.

I think ever since I was preteen I wanted to direct movies and tell stories.

Fred Durst

Time is Galleons, little brother.

J.K. Rowling

Be creative, be useful, be practical, be generous and finish big

Lisa Genova

Take events in your life seriously, take work seriously, but don't take yourself seriously, or you'll become affected, pompous and boring.

Shelley Duvall

Weather is a literary specialty, and no untrained hand can turn out a good article on it

Mark Twain

You try to make plans for people, and the people make other plans

Terry Pratchett

Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.

J. K. Rowling

Prophecy: Two bull's eyes out of a possible million

Mark Twain

People see I am a mother and head of a household. Today in Chile, one-third of households are run by women. They wake up, take the children to school, go to work. To them I am hope.

Michelle Bachelet

Insecurity, commonly regarded as a weakness in normal people, is the basic tool of the actor's trade.

Miranda Richardson

I'll do strength training in my dressing room between shoots, and I've been known to make business calls while out jogging. I try to mute myself on Bluetooth so they can't hear me huffing and puffing, but I usually end up getting caught.

Alison Sweeney

And the worst part is before it gets any better we're heading for a cliff. And in the free fall I will realize I'm better off when I hit the bottom

Hayley Williams