“You don't have to be like anyone else. You just need to learn more about your own creative self and start blooming.”
“Charm. It's a sort of bloom on a woman. If you have it, you don't need to have anything else; and if you don't have it, it doesn't much matter what else you have.”
“Passion has more applications than just about anything. If you don't have a fire in your belly about something, you should go start one.”
“One day," she told us, "you'll have to leave here and go out into the big world out there and earn your living like everyone else. To do that you need to learn. The more you learn now, the more interesting your life will be.”
“If you don't like what you're doing, it's unlikely anyone else will either, so be sure you are happy with your own work first.”
“You are the captain of your own ship; don't let anyone else take the wheel.”