I figured out if I have a good goal in mind, then I can actually achieve it.

Adrenaline is the reason I do what I do.

There is something so rewarding about dancing. It's almost spiritual - you let loose, you feel free, you get endorphins from the exercise.

I've always had God, but now I want to go back to church for the sense of community and that feeling of positive thinking, a place where I can think about being a better person.

I think it's important to be happy before you can make anybody else happy.

Friends are the best therapy.

I try to bring my mascara everywhere because I'm a blonde and you know blondes have really light eyelashes, you always wanna put more and more on 'til they look like spiders, that's just what I do.

'Grease' is one of the movies that made me want to be an entertainer, and I have literally been waiting my whole life to play Sandy.

I'm very blessed and I don't take anything for granted. I think if you alienate people and just focus on your work then it just becomes lonely and it's not fun anymore.

It's scary to take risks and it's scary to get out of your comfort zone, but it's also the most rewarding when you do.

When you dance on your own there is something so magical and so special.

The amount of time spent on a product will determine its value

Maybe stories choose how they are told and who tells them.

Oh God, this is my fantasy! Where those just-friend boys suddenly realize they lov

Sufism is experiential

Environmentalism, I'd always been told, was just rich white people.

We learn to believe by believing. We learn to love by loving. The practice of acting on a certain thing, even (or especially) when feeling is absent, embodies the entire "how" of growth.

Has your relationship with God changed the way you live your life?

I was raised in Brooklyn, and I lived there for 59 years.

Objects are better than text at conveying narrative

How to teach rigor while preserving imagination is an unsolved challenge to education.