All this focus on my private life is the most unappealing aspect of being an actor. I don’t like it, but it goes with the territory, and I have to put up with it. I certainly don’t set out to attract attention. Sean Bean Read Quote
Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise. Margaret Atwood Read Quote
Hormones get no respect. We think of them as the elusive chemicals that make us a bit moody, but these magical little molecules do so much more. Susannah Cahalan Read Quote
We were into Hendrix and Cream, who were like the heaviest bands around at that time. We just wanted to be heavier than everybody else! Geezer Butler Read Quote
My entire philosophy of teaching is based on the notion that when an artist finds a certain process really effortless, that’s probably what he or she should choose to do. So often, students take the opposite tack; they have no use for the skills that come easily to them. Marilyn Minter Read Quote
The real biographies of poets are like those of birds, almost identical – their data are in the way they sound. A poet’s biography lies in his twists of language, in his meters, rhymes, and metaphors. Joseph Brodsky Read Quote
In re-reading ‘Presumed Innocent,’ the one thing that struck me – and I re-read the book four different times in writing ‘Innocent,’ interested in different things each time – but I did think there were a couple of extra loops in the plot that I probably didn’t need. The other thing that sort of amazed me was how discursive the book was. Scott Turow Read Quote