I filmed Albatross before I got Downton. Its a coming-of-age movie about this girl who leaps into this familys life, like a whirlwind. Shes ballsy and brash and wonderful, it was such an amazing character to play. – Jessica Brown Findlay
It was a late-October Sunday, the leaves tinged with brown, and the air crisp in a way that made you shiver if you stood still too long. – Joe Kita, “Growing Old and Staying Young,” Wisdom of Our Fathers, 1999
Well, probably I was fed up with concrete poetry. There was a lot of bad concrete poetry and besides, it was confused with visual poetry which was completely different. – Ian Hamilton Finlay
My dad is a bank president and my mom was an accountant and they didnt think that seeking the life of a freelance writer was very practical, you see. Of course, I was just as determined to do it. – Kevin J. Anderson