"If I respect myself and believe in what I’m doing, no one can touch me." ― Fiona Apple Topic(s): Respect More From Fiona Apple "You know, I’ve always thought that it would be really funny if somebody made a romantic comedy where absolutely everything went well from beginning to end." "Nothing that you do will ever feel good if you let people convince you that you have no choice." "The quick success was a bit strange to get used to." More In Respect "But you know, my dad called me the laziest white kid he ever met. When I screamed back at him that he was putting down a race of people to call me lazy, his answer was that’s not what he was doing, and that I was also the dumbest white kid he ever met."― Norman Lear "I came from a real working-class show business family."― Sally Field "I like writing for children. It seems to me that most people underestimate their understanding and the strength of their feelings and in my books for them I try to put this right."― Nina Bawden