When you’re accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression.

To be the eyes and ears and conscience of the Creator of the Universe, you fool.

Kurt Vonnegut

Christmas is taken very seriously in this household. I believe in Father Christmas, and there's no way I'd do anything to undermine that belief.

Carol Ann Duffy

In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves... self-discipline with all of them came first.

Harry S. Truman

I felt that if there wasn't going to be a good opportunity, then I would just go back to second units which I love, keep working with great directors, keep learning and knowing that the opportunity would come when the time was right.

David R. Ellis

...music is the key to life

DMX

I'm a mom first.

Mindy McCready

The whole thing about making films in an organic film on location is that it's not all about characters, relationships and themes, it's also about place and the poetry of place. It's about the spirit of what you find, the accidents of what you stumble across.

Mike Leigh

People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

I'm looking forward to the peace of mind to just write... Songwriting is something that I just fell into. I never expected to love it. But I've always had to kind of treat it like a hobby. Now it's going to feel so good to know that I can just sit down and write.

Scott Clifton

I read somewhere that Mitt and I have a 'storybook marriage.' Well, in the storybooks I read, there were never long, long, rainy winter afternoons in a house with five boys screaming at once. And those storybooks never seemed to have chapters called MS or breast cancer.

Ann Romney

I work with the Humane Society a lot and have three rescue cats.

Ian Somerhalder

Always I will take another step. If that is of no avail I will take another, and yet another. In truth, one step at a time is not too difficult. I will persist until I succeed.

Og Mandino