I’m an ordinary girl who believed in her dream.

You don't have to be someone special to achieve something amazing. You've just got to have a dream, believe in it and work hard.

You don't have to be anyone special to achieve something big. You just have to want to do it.

You are only as big as the dreams you dare to live.

For me... it was always about the challenge of making this voyage... It was always a calculated risk, but life is a risk.

You can't change conditions - just the way you deal with them.

The Spurs couldn't put everything aside and just play the damn game.

I don’t think I will get married,” Polly said as she stood up. “I’m going to train to be a hero instead.

Not sure how I feel about reality. I'm going to begin purchasing stuffed animals and endowing them with the qualities people in my life lack.

Nobody has a right to whip me but my own master, and nobody shall do so if I can prevent it

Philosophy may raise us above grandeur, but nothing can elevate us above the ennui which accompanies it.

So many people treat you like you're a kid so you might as well act like one and throw your television out of the hotel window.

[I like to] engage with funny people, or weird people, or, you know, kind of off people. [Whereas when I meet] anybody who's ... normal ... I'm not curious, I'm not interested.

Associations are both subtle and powerful.

I'm much more into bad, trashy Belgian techno. I like that much more than rock bands. The whole idea of a rock band is so archaic.

I sometimes truly despair at ever being meaningfully altered and affected by the things I claim are so important to me.