Bridal is very much a performance - it is the one grand event in every woman's life.

I love intimate details like lingerie, something like a gorgeous silk stocking or exquisite slipper.

No matter how much I try to be plain, people don't accept me, so I might as well be fabulous.

I love when brides tell me they want to do something special and unique, but I'm not a fan of doing anything too crazy.

Each season I try to incorporate something new that corresponds to the timing and the trends in everyday fashion.

Living in New York, I get inspired by what young women are wearing - everything from high fashion to street fashion.

When designing a collection that is traditional, that has one specific sort of garment like a white dress, I think just being constantly attuned to trends really help.

There is definitely a correlation between theater and wedding fashion.

I think in the bridal world you definitely have to be on your toes at all times.

I love the tradition of changing gowns throughout the reception. I know it's a little extravagant, but why not - it's your moment.

Eche, eche, AB32, CD54, EF76, Amanda thought as she kissed Steven. At any moment, she would either kill or transform him.

A masculine education cannot spare from professional study and the necessary acquisition of languages, the time and attention which I have bestowed on the compositions of my countrymen.

I've pretty much always had the same haircut my entire life.

Fiction writing is an act of imagination, lived experience is secondary in many ways, writing a novel really is all about inventing worlds and people.

When you get wet, it usually means something good.

Our public schools need to be in the control of parents and the community, as opposed to businessmen who see the $23 billion budget as a means to giving no-bid contracts to their cronies.

I'm a real people person and I'm very sensitive, and I've just noticed how other actors that I've worked with, as an actor, take direction from people.

We live in very, very, very dangerous times.

In the United States, there hasn't been much legislative change on the surveillance issue, although there are some tepid proposals.

Can I ask you about Caroline Mathers?" "And you say there's no afterlife.