S.W. Collins Quotes

Some walks you have to take alone.

I've gone through many, many things. I tell you something, that if it doesn't kill you, you get stronger.

Don't ever have a rule that you won't enforce with your best player.

There's a chance that the old Peeta, the one who loves you, is still inside. Trying to get back to you. Don't give up on him.

Music is always occurring. It is just a matter of marketing, attention, and many other factors, that determines whether people will hear these songs or not.

To change a team you must change their comfort zone.

It is as if one by one, the memories you used to harbor decided to retire to the Southern Hemisphere of the brain.

But the only thing that distracts me from my current situation is fantasizing about killing President Snow.

To be honest, producing records interests me less at the moment and I really don't want to get involved in album projects that are going to take up a lot of time

Katniss, there is no District Twelve.

I received an OBE from the Queen, which probably doesn't mean anything in America but is quite nice in England - the Order of the British Empire for services to drama.

There's no point in comforting words, in telling her she'll be all right. She's no fool. Her hand reaches out and I clutch it like a lifeline. As if it's me who's dying instead of Rue.

Those fortunate enough to find or create a practical intersection of the three circles have the basis for a great work life.

No, it happened. And right when your song ended, I knew - just like your mother - I was a goner,' Peeta says.

The problem is, I can’t tell what’s real anymore, and what’s made up.

You've got to go through it to get to the end of it.

And I kissed a lot of frogs as well, but no, I kissed a lot of frogs and now I've found my prince.

I take his hand, holding on tightly, preparing for the cameras, and dreading the moment when I will finally have to let go.

Each thing leapfrogs. I do a Genesis project - like now, we're just finishing off an album - and then by the time the album is doing its thing, I could do nothing or I could do a film.

I don't believe in dieting.

Are you, are you coming to the tree? Wear a necklace of rope, side by side with me. Strange things did happen here. No stranger would let it be if we met up At midnight in the hanging tree.

…balancing the wish to be lost with the need to be found.

We've been socialized with these concepts of love, intimacy, that have no bearing on reality.

I can almost hear Haymitch groaning as I team up with this wispy child. But I want her. Because she's a survivor, and I trust her, and why not admit it? She reminds me of Prim.

Decisions are the endless uncertainties of life that we'll not know if they're right until the very end, so do the best you can and hope its right.

I have an almost seven year old... I think it's essential to be consistent with kids. And truthful, without scaring them. I could go on for hours on this one.

All I set out to do was to earn a living playing drums, you know? And as luck would have it, I've surpassed that.

It is not enough to render things equal to the will, that they are equal or alike in themselves.

And I used to write novels and little stories and compositions and I - but I put them away because I started acting when I was 17. So there wasn't much time.

I'm much happier just to write myself out of the script entirely.

I think dieting is bad for you.

for some reason Gale and Peeta do not coexist well in my thoughts.

One must dig deeply into opposing points of view in order to know whether your own position remains defensible. Iron sharpens iron.

Smiling is mostly about smiling more.

And here I am, strapped into a tree, a stone's throw from the biggest idiot in the games.

I love baking, it's the most calming thing for me. It's therapeutic, it makes the house smell good, and I get to take the goods to my friends. I do it for other people.

The American people rightly look to their military leaders to be not only skilled in the technical aspects of the profession of arms, but to be men of integrity

I loathe conflict, and I loathe not getting along well with people, so I always try very hard to be on the best terms with the people I work with.

Well may your heart believe the truths Well may your heart believe the truths I tell; 'Tis virtue makes the bliss, where'er we dwell.

Oh, Peeta, Don't make me sorry I restarted your heart.

As I've got older, I've got more understanding of relationships and how they work - but every single relationship has different dynamics, so you can't paint everyone with the same colour.

Well you are a piece of work aren't you?

The most successful exploiter is the one who makes others feel that he or she has their best interests at heart.

Just don't die for me, you won't be doing me any favour !

My mother use to call me 'Miss Perpetual Motion' because I rarely keep still.

One of the rules about being an actor or an actress is that you never diss other actors or actresses, particularly when you don't know them.

Illegal immigration can never be completely stopped, no matter how high the wall or how many patrol agents you have watching it.

From the age of 17 I was a pin-up girl. I did it for 30 years and, quite frankly, it gets a bit boring.

So I only say, "So what should we do with our last few days?" "I just want to spend every possible minute of the rest of my life with you," Peeta replies.

Hillary Clinton almost got to be president. The reasons why she didn't become president had to do with bad judgments about how to handle the early caucus states, which is not a gender-specific trait.