I do not innovate. I transmit.

I do not innovate. I transmit.

The substance of painting is light.

It could get saturated or monotonous if I would do the same characters again and again. That is why, to save myself from that feeling, I take time out to choose roles that excite me.

There must of course be a relationship between translating and making poems of your own, but what it is I just don't know.

If you have a surreal life like I do, you've got to have fun along the way.

A friend of mine said, no matter what I do I always look like an English teacher. She actually said, you still look like a Campbell's Soup kid.

We, Homo sapiens, destroyed the majority of the large mammalian species in North America and Australasia just over 10,000 years ago. We, Homo sapiens, now are destroying the other species that presently exist on this planet at a rate of about 15,000 to 20,000 per year.

Fashion is an illusion. It's a multibillion-pound industry that has to appear frivolous. Designers work and work and work, all night sometimes.

My cow is not pretty, but it is pretty to me.

So, I don't know what is going to happen when the CD comes out, how well it will sell, etc. But, from a personal point of view, it was a very worthwhile endeavor.

I know that I'm a decent actor, but it's another thing to be in a scene with Jon Hamm and hold your own.

My sweetheart is to me more than a coined hemisphere.

But nothing that can be said can begin to take away the anguish and the pain of these moments. Grief is the price we pay for love.

Every one of the world's dictatorships can and does claim to be acting in the name of the people.

Women need to be in key operational roles where they run businesses in the organization. Sometimes when organizations focus on leadership diversity, they're mostly in areas like HR or non-operating line functions.

What good is the warmth of summer without the cold of winter to give it sweetness You only truly deeply appreciate and are grateful for something when you compare and contrast it to something worse.

They say, once you have a child, your heart is forever outside your body. I totally understand that now.

It wasn't until I realised that I could actually take nice photographs that I started to become passionate about it. I then got a few jobs working for magazines in London, and I would get terribly excited and intense about doing a job and taking photographs and looking through the lens to capture something amazing.

As far as the grunge thing there are three bands from Seattle that I would call true grunge.

My only regret is that I signed away the world rights and in America they've been far and away my most successful books, but I never saw a cent from any of it.

We usually don't have applications in mind. They come later.

With every film that you do, you're always so nervous. You feel exposed because you know people will see this eventually. You sort of have to put all that out of your head. What will be will be. But it's nerve wracking.

If you care enough to look right, you care enough to act right. And vice versa.

I was in my second year at NYU. I knew what I wanted to do, and I just walked out of college. So, from the age of 17, I've been able to do what I wanted, and that makes for a kind of contentment, a fairly pleasant demeanor.

I think girls especially get so caught up in thinking like, 'Oh I have to be prim or proper or fun and sunshiny' when, like, you can be literally anything. You can be mannish; you can do whatever, and it's acceptable.

I spent my childhood in Newfoundland and then my junior high and high school years in Alberta, Canada.