"D'you know what I like about you? Fuck all."
"You have to be your biggest inspiration. Nobody will be as passionate about your career as you are, nobody will have as much invested as you do. So if you're constantly looking to outside sources to reassure you and lift you up, you will be disappointed; we all have to find that in ourselves somehow." - Joyce DiDonato
"It is the same with any life. Imagine one selected day struck out of it and think how different its course would have been. Pause, you who read this, and think for a long moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you but for the formation of that first link on that memorable