I can be anything I want to be. Just wait and you will see. Only time will tell what I will be.

People speak even after their death. Only do speak those who have recorded their speech in writing before they die, the rest go silent forever

It can only be that places left behind often become emotionally simplified - that they sound a single note of pain or pleasure, which means that they are never what they were.

In the corrupted currents of this worldOffence's gilded hand may shove by justice, And oft 'tis seen the wicked prize itselfBuys out the law. . . (Claudius, from Hamlet, Act 3, scene 3)

he was one of those diplomats who like and know how to work, and, despite his laziness, he occasionally spent nights at his desk.

the ragged skyline of the city resembled the disturbed encephalograph of an unresolved mental crisis.

The best imitation in the world is not half as good as a poor original.

I'm trying to show I'm a trained actress - I can transform myself into different characters. I'm not just an ingenue.

My God! How terrible these money questions are for an artist!

People who have great lives think and talk about what they love more than what they don't love. And people who are struggling, think and talk about what they don't love more than what they do love.

Stokes gets a straight yellow for that challenge.