When I had the wonderful occasion to play a goofball, Jane, in ‘Coupling,’ it was definitely an homage to Julia Louis-Dreyfus, who I just think is a genius. Gina Bellman Read Quote
My biggest fault is that I give people too much credit. Then they let you down. I’m 99.9 per cent perfect – that’s how I look at myself and, therefore, everybody else too. Ian Brown Read Quote
For so long, the model for writing has been, you sit in a room alone for a number of days or weeks or months or years and figure it out. But now, you don’t have to do that; you don’t have to be alone in the room anymore. Robin Sloan Read Quote
Words are the tools of ‘to be’ – of expression. They are completely built on the fact that you ‘are,’ and in order to express it, you have built a little alphabet, and you make your words from it. Marcel Duchamp Read Quote
I’m going to stay active as long as I can politically, and with the Carter Center primarily, and if I’m able mentally and physically, will continue to be quite active. Jimmy Carter Read Quote
I think the close work I do as a translator pays off in my writing – I’m always searching for multiple ways to say things. Lydia Davis Read Quote
It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own selfish purposes. Andrew Jackson Read Quote
I’ve always been an outsider. Even in London. If I returned to Scotland, I’d feel a complete foreigner. Peter Doig Read Quote
