You build a thing of beauty, and then the peasants storm the castle, hooting and chanting and calling you a heretic.

There is no short cut to a place worth going.

The English talked with inflected phrases. One phrase to mean everything.

I feel a big obligation to the audience, almost in a moral sense, to say something useful. If I'm going to spend a year of my life on these things, I want something that I feel that strongly about.

You don't want to disappoint. Especially someone like me who's been out of music for years and hasn't had an album in like, four years.

Thankfully, it became clear to me that when I compete, I lose my connection to the passion I have for my work.

Amy Winehouse - her surname's beginning to sound like a description of her liver.

I still feel like I have a lot of growing up to do 'til I find the voice. You know, everybody has their own voice and their own thing they want to say to the world.

Oh, Peeta, Don't make me sorry I restarted your heart.

The perfect woman, you see [is] a working-woman; not an idler; not a fine lady; but one who [uses] her hands and her head and her heart for the good of others.

[My pots ] are not like [Hans] Coper's at all, but the idea came from seeing catalogue of his work, although at the time we knew Hans, his work was nothing like that.