Coming from The Disney Channel, anything I do is going to offend somehow, somewhere, somehow.

My dad loves to cook. I'm half Thai, and growing up that's all we ate in my house. My dad was very big on the idea that dinnertime and cooking time was also family time.

Your body is like a machine, and if you don't keep it in shape, it holds you back. You don't want anything holding you back, especially yourself.

I'd like to have any sort of Mexican or Italian food any time of the day!

I live in heels. Give me a pair of flip-flops and I'll trip all over myself.

I joke around all the time, 'I'm Asian; I'm really good at math.'

Evil influence is like a nicotine patch, you cannot help but absorb what sticks to you.

If I do not give a friend "The benefit of the doubt," but put the worst construction instead of the best on what is said or done, then I know nothing of Calvary love.

People do not realise that many of my works are done in urban places. I was brought up on the edge of Leeds, five miles from the city centre-on one side were fields and on the other, the city.

[My job is] a very high trapeze act, frequently with no net.

Time is a perishable commodity.

No learning can make up for the failure to pray. No earnestness, no diligence, no study, no gifts will supply its lack.

Just wear what you want, if you like something that's all that matters. Dress for yourself not for other people.

There is nothing more important to this nation's future than investing in our young people.

It's also interesting to notice that most of the best Finnish speculative writers are women.