The more you relate to something or somebody speaks to you, it means more. I think that putting yourself out there like heart-on-sleeve, is really important.

The more you learn, I think the more you realise who you are and what you want and what you believe and what you want to be and where you want to end up.

You can grow flowers from where dirt use to be.

I've been accused of deliberately hamming up my accent and dropping letters, but that's just how I speak - I used to be a chav.

Jealousy is not a nice feeling, I hate feeling jealous. But if you can admit it and laugh at yourself, then that's a good way of dealing with your feelings.

Just because you have political beliefs or feminist beliefs, you don't have to like everybody, you don't have to like everything.

People don't know how to deal with stress and depression, so they're nasty to other people because it makes them feel better about themselves.

People are scared. People are generally xenophobic - they're scared of what's different. If you're ignorant as well as scared, then you might end up hating something that you're scared of.

I think the media put more pressure on women, especially in regards to the way they look and how they're supposed to behave.

I can watch a sunset on my own.

I love reading books, I love the way they feel and getting through it. It's like an event!

Part of me thinks that innovation, real innovation in health care delivery, needs to happen from the bottom to the top.

There is no greater hindrance to the progress of thought than an attitude of irritated party-spirit.

I take seriously the idea that we are African Apes who (at least for the moment) dominate the planet, but our psychology is pretty much what it was when we were living in small groups on the savanna.

Along a series of lines running from longer to shorter wavelengths the effect of the electric field becomes greater as the serial numbers increase - that is, as the wavelength decreases.

Every film has to be the next something else; originality isn't celebrated because you can't market it.

I am constantly amazed at how little painters know about painting, writers about writing, merchants about business, manufacturers about manufacturing. Most men just drift.

I want kids to know that it is okay to make a change in order to feel better about themselves.

I love every bone in a woman's body, especially mine.

The best revenge in the world is success.

Love me. Be with me." "That's enough?" "That's plenty.