Cédric Villani // "It is not all about shining and brilliance; sometimes it is better to step out of the light and work quietly."
Duane Michals // "That's why this moment is so dear...for this quick instant, we are real."
Ernst Haas // "Ask yourself if you would do it if nobody would ever see it, if you would never be compensated for it, if nobody ever wanted it. If you come to a clear 'yes' in spite of it, then go ahead and don't doubt it anymore."
Tina Fey // "Speak in statements instead of apologetic questions. No one wants to go to a doctor who says, "I'm going to be your surgeon? I'm going to talk to you about your procedure?"... Make statements, with your actions and your voice."
Lena Dunham // "Luxury is nice, but creativity is nicer."
Charlotte Rampling // "I am fascinated by the whole process of what it's like to be alive, whether it's unbelievably uncomfortable and horrible or whether it's quite nice."
Richard McGuire // "I've been thinking a lot about how seldom we're in the moment, how we're always thinking about something else, making plans, remembering...but occasionally we get flashes of being right where we are."
Nina Simone // "I have to constantly re-identify myself to myself, reactivate my own standards, my own convictions about what I’m doing and why."
Marina Abramovic // "I think communication starts when words are not present at all... I think we put so much emphasis on language, actually silence is so much more important."
Michael Caine // "I've always got to have one impossible dream on the back burner."
Woody Allen // "I have no idea what I am doing, but incompetence has never prevented me from plunging in with enthusiasm."
Andy Warhol // "People are always so boring when they band together. You have to be alone to develop all the idiosyncrasies that make a person interesting."