I wanted to escape Small Town U.S.A. To dismiss the boundaries, to explore. My life experience came from watching movies, TV, and reading books and magazines. When your culture comes from watching TV everyday, you're bombarded with images of things that seem cool, places that seem interesting, people who have jobs and careers and opportunities.

Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

Bertolt Brecht

I love Poseidon. His trident - his weapon - is really cool.

Kellan Lutz

It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak up and remove all doubt.

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Growing up, I looked up to major league baseball players, and now these young women have amazing, incredible women all across the board, from swimming to gymnastics to softball to basketball.

Jennie Finch

He who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.

St. Basil

My mother taught public school, went to Harvard and then got her master's there and taught fifth and sixth grade in a public school. My dad had a more working-class lifestyle. He didn't go to college. He was an auto mechanic and a bartender and a janitor at Harvard.

Ben Affleck

Everybody knows that love goes away.

Jennifer Tilly

A writer never reads his work. For him, it is the unreadable, a secret, and he cannot remain face to face with it. A secret, because he is separated from it.

Maurice Blanchot

Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.

Iris Murdoch

I don't want to be a 'teen star' because so many people don't ever grow out of that.

Lacey Chabert

There is so much hypocrisy in sports.

Dennis Rodman

If you know how to read, you have a complete education about life, then you know how to vote within a democracy. But if you don't know how to read, you don't know how to decide. That's the great thing about our country - we're a democracy of readers, and we should keep it that way.

Ray Bradbury