I have always been interested in art but had no formal training or experience. It's always been just what I liked, my eye for art.

It's important to me to just experience as much as possible and to be able to just work and meet new people and have different experiences and have as much knowledge as I can.

I love scary movies, but I'd never really even seen The Vampire Diaries, up until I met [Kevin Williamson].

For me, being a girlboss is about being the boss of your own life. At 26 I still don't know what's happening in my life, but I'm asking, What will make me happy next?

I have a lot of girlfriends who are struggling out there to find good men.

I never talk about auditions. Even if I've got the role, I won't tell people until we're literally filming it.

Honestly, I love television. I love the idea of going to work every day and getting to know your crew and having a rapport with your directors and having a family of cast.

I think everyone has their own version of romance like and I think everyone has their own romantic side.

I love to continue acting. It's my passion.

Be assertive, but don't forget to look around. I realized there are other opinions that can be more useful to me than just sticking to my guns.

The song Cant Look Back Now by the Weepies reminds me of the entire Life Unexpected experience.

A word is a bud attempting to become a twig. How can one not dream while writing? It is the pen which dreams. The blank page gives the right to dream.

Old Barley might be as old as thee hills, and might swear like a whole field of troopers, but there were redeeming youth and trust and hope enough in Chinks's Basin to fill it to overflowing.

what is ceremonious and curious and commonplace will be legendary.

It is a newspaper's duty to print the news and raise hell.

I arrived in California with no job, no car, and no money, but, like millions of other girls, a dream.

In many cases, jobs that used to be done by people are going to be able to be done through automation. I don't have an answer to that. That's one of the more perplexing problems of society.

I look at other members of my generation who have basically done one thing, and one thing well, and have been handsomely rewarded for it.

But this was a moral question, and the answer to it may not have been legally relevant.

Believe me, nothing is so calculated to lose you audience sympathy as too many tears. Move your listeners all you can but let them do the crying.

What I absorbed from autobiographies was not how to be great so much as the littleness of the great.