James Brown // "My expectations of other people...I double them on myself."
Neil Gaiman // "Adults follow paths. Children explore. Adults are content to walk the same way, hundreds of times, or thousands; perhaps it never occurs to adults to step off the paths...to find the spaces between fences."
Man Ray // "Unconcerned but not indifferent."
Edward Weston // "One does not think during creative work any more than one thinks when driving a car. But one has a background of years – learning, unlearning, success, failure, dreaming, thinking, experience, all this – then the moment of creation, the focusing of all into the moment."
Edie Sedgwick // "It's not that I'm rebelling, it's that I'm just trying to find another way."
Julie Andrews // "Miracles, contrary to popular belief, do not just happen. A miracle is the achievement of the impossible, and it is only when we put aside our greed, anger, pride and prejudice so that our minds are open and ready to accept it, that a miracle can occur."
Mary Quant // "One of the things I've learned is never to horde ideas, because either they are not so relevant or they've gone stale. Whatever it is, pour it out."
Ricky Gervais // "Everyone has the right to believe in anything they want. And everyone else has the right to find it fucking ridiculous."
Sophia Loren // "It's necessary to have an energy that carries you forward. You need the will to live, to have great curiosity."
Steven Spielberg // "When I don't have a story to tell, I'm a terror to live with."
Sharon Tate // "I'm very unpredictable. Very, very impulsive. Extremely. Sometimes I don't know what I want to do from one day to the next. I can't enjoy anything premeditated; I just do it as I feel it. But whatever I do is motivated by honesty."
Rainer Werner Fassbinder // "Cheerfulness that’s characterized as cheerfulness by the usual signs usually isn’t the real thing. I’m cheerful in a certain way, and it’s for myself... when a person who’s eating feels it’s necessary to keep saying “Oh, what a marvelous piece of meat!” or “This sauce is incredibly delicious!” I have a strange feeling that for some reason he has to talk himself into believing it. Or if you’re out for a walk and the other person keeps saying how lovely it is to go walking with you... Someone who always feels the necessity to say what he may or may not be feeling–he must have to talk himself into it... In principle I’m not against expressing something now and then, on the contrary, language is a significant means of getting things across, after all. But I just think it shouldn’t be a constant thing."