On becoming a mother, I sort of feel like every kid is my kid. I

really do get that sense in a much more profound way that we all are a global community and we all have to band to try and give the children of our this generation whatever tools we can to go out into this world and try and make it a better place. Sarah McLachlan

Most of the big money people don't know what would interest an audience if you did it. They only know what interested the audience last time. Harold Prince

It's usually easier for me to begin writing in a character's voice if that person is different from me in some significant way. Nell Freudenberger

I am a professional photographer because it is the best way I know to earn the money I require to take care of my wife and children. Irving Penn

If you want a bourgeois existence, you shouldn't be an actor. You're in the wrong profession. Uta Hagen

Making a big commercial movie is hard when you think about how many of them flop. Beeban Kidron

Whenever I've had success, I never learn from it. Success usually breeds a degree of hubris. When you fail, that's when you learn. Moby

One secures the gold of the spirit when he finds himself. Claude M. Bristol

Anthropology in general has always been fairly hospitable to female scholars, and even to feminist scholars. Clifford Geertz

I've got no interest in educating or instructing people. Tom Stoppard