I'd started working when I was 21 and had been very determined about my career, very focused, even as a little kid, so it was something I had been working at for a long time.

It's my experience that the fluidity of sexuality with younger people is more accepted.

I think our show is very different from Orange County.

It's really hard in this day and age, with radio and MTV being so consolidated, to get new music out there. I think we've become a really legitimate, viable avenue for getting new music out there.

Certainly there's got to be a little bit of reality show fatigue happening.

Year Two is a critical year for any television show.

I want every character be an outsider in some way.

I am the kind of person that takes everything as is and then look at it from the outside looking in.

I think you're only as good as the work that you do.

Like they said about The West Wing, you can't do a show about Washington until you can.

The fun thing about TV is you get the opportunity to discover things, and somebody who starts off in a smaller part can really emerge and surprise you.

I own my life to the Saviour, who saved me.

The traveled mind is the catholic mind educated from exclusiveness and egotism.

When you get down to the nitty gritty, isn't it a pity that in this big city not one little bitty man will admit that he could have been a little wrong.

Let him think is I am more man than I am and I will be so.

I've met many thinkers and many cats, but the wisdom of cats is infinitely superior.

Yes, I'm a real fighter. But I often ended up empty-handed.

In order to plant the Gospel, we must take risk.

And that is my wish for you: flourish and prosper!

A modest woman has good children.

Labor is discovered to be the grand conqueror, enriching and building up nations more surely than the proudest battles.