Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.

The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading, in order to write: a man will turn over half a library to make one book.

This is one of the disadvantages of wine, it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.

Hell is paved with good intentions.

..And i can't get you out of my mind, God knows how hard I've tried

Music is the final piece of filmmaking—the essential element that pulls emotion from an audience and puts the goosebumps on the screen.

The modern materialists are not permitted to doubt

I need to pay people to make me work out, or I wouldn't do it.

We look our best in subdued colors, sophisticated cuts, and a general air of sleek understatement.

You don't really conquer a mountain, you conquer yourself. You overcome sickness & everything else - your pains, aches, fears - to reach the summit.

I spent lots of time reading the encyclopedia and really kind of an eclectic approach to learning things - not very structured.

I'm getting a lot of roles as women who are very powerful. I think that's a reflection of me as a person.

As Hegel well knew, the ascent of reason has never followed a straight line.

I'm still me even after all that's happened.