Because I had grown up with Jane Austen novels and period dramas, I was very familiar with that period and that world.

Don't worry about society's conditioning and the labels that are put on you by external forces. Hold onto your true self.

I try not to define myself. Other people are going to do that for you anyway.

As a biracial girl growing up in England, I'd never really seen any historical characters who looked like me depicted on film before that weren't being brutalized or playing slaves.

I try to define myself through my own choices rather than just accepting society's kind of you're that, you're that, let me put you in a box kind of thing.

I was lucky that my mother had a very well-adjusted perspective of the world, and never pressured me to do anything I didn't want to do.

I think, irrespective of your race, everybody has moments in life where they don't fit in, or where they try to puzzle through who they really are or to find the courage of their convictions.

But when you become a slave to a public persona and don’t feel comfortable without it, it becomes a shield and it shouldn’t come at the expense of your self-worth.

Different fragrances promote different emotions, and I find that fragrance gets me in the frame of mind for that person.

I'm a multi-faceted human being.

From the age of four, I loved ballet and tap. I was in the school band, the choir, and all my school plays.

Every dream is a butterfly flying in the garden we call life in search of flowers of success and happiness.

The best work and of greatest merit for the public has proceeded from the unmarried or childless men.

I have made good judgments in the past. I have made good judgments in the future.

The reward of energy, enterprise and thrift is taxes.

A team divided against itself can break down at any moment. The least bit of pressure or adversity will crack it apart

Be more concerned with being interested than being interesting.

When you invite trouble, it's usually quick to accept.

We're translating the Kama Sutra," Barrons said, with interactive aids.

No honest journalist should be willing to describe himself or herseif as 'embedded.' To say, 'I'm an embedded journalist' is to say, 'I'm a government Propagandist.

No matter how expert you may be, well-designed checklists can improve outcomes.