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“I've made compromises to survive in life, and to be able to do what I want to do. But, once anything has been put on screen, I've never made a compromise.”
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“We have to be plumbers, electricians, construction engineers, or workers, on the space station, but at the same time running a laboratory, being scientists, being the best laboratory assistants we can be. It's all in a bundle; it's very exciting, it's a lot of fun.”
Source : "Rocket To ISS Lifts Off With American, Russian, Canadian Astronauts" by Clara Moskowitz, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 19, 2012. 
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“Australia's is a special kind of philistinism, an immovable materialism which puts art and ideas of any kind deliberately and firmly to one side to let the serious business of living proceed without distraction.”
Source : Robin Boyd, Australian Broadcasting Commission (1967). “Artificial Australia”
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“I'm rubber and you're glue," I told Satan, " and everything that bounces of me sticks to you.”
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“Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.”
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“I think that the entertainment industry itself has a history of chasing success. Any time a hit product comes out, all the other companies start chasing after that success and trying to recreate it by putting out similar products.”
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“Where’s your sketch pad?†I asked. … “I gave that up,†Kay said. “I wasn’t very good, so I changed my major.†“To what?†“To pre-med, then psychology, then English lit, then history.†“I like a woman who knows what she wants.†Kay smiled. “So do I, but I don’t know any.”
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“Colleges hate geniuses, just as convents hate saints.”
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“I approach writing a poem in a much different state than when I am writing prose. It's almost as if I were working in a different language when I'm writing poetry. The words - what they are and what they can become - the possibilities of the words are vastly expanded for me when I'm writing a poem.”
Source : "A Conversation with Pattiann Rogers". Interview with Carolyn Perry, Wayne Zade, poems.com. 2009.
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“If you can't get a job as a pianist in a brothel you become a royal reporter.”
Source : "The Princess and the Press". "Frontline", www.pbs.org. November 16, 1997.
