The duty of literature is to note what counts, and to light up what is suited to the light. If it ceases to choose and to love, it becomes like a woman who gives herself without preference. – Anatole France
What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote. – E.M. Forster, Two Cheers for Democracy, 1951
So its kind of nervous to be in this situation, but at the same time you look at all those actors and the work that theyve done, Ive been in bigger films than all of them and still kept my integrity and still kept my respect. – Shia LaBeouf
A rumor that followed me forever was that my family was in the mafia. For years I had to live with it. Theyd call me the mafia princess, so I rolled with it for the rest of high school. People even joke about it today. – Giuliana Rancic