I have had brown hair and bangs since I was 2. One year I dyed it blonde, which felt so weird.

Anyone who knows me knows that I am really into hair. I'm a real girly girl and love doing my hair and experimenting with different styles.

Classic Christmas cookies are really time-consuming. Instead, make a bar you can bake in a pan and just cut up, like a brownie or a blondie or a shortbread, which still has that Christmas vibe.

My biggest complaint with tights is that they do not accommodate skinny-ankled people like myself.

I like to play the ukulele, but I'm not, like, awesome at it. I mostly play the piano and the guitar.

Nothing's better than a picnic.

Always the aim for me is making people feel like they are not alone. That's just the greatest feeling.

A lot of people work out to be skinny. That's so boring, and it seems like a depressing goal for a modern woman.

I remember having this friend in school who said she didn't like the Beach Boys. And in that moment I knew we couldn't be friends anymore.

It's never too late for a coffee. After all it's morning somewhere in the world.

After staring at origami directions long enough, you sort of become one with them and start understanding them from the inside.

In books, sometimes the foreshadowing is so obvious that you know what’s going to happen. But knowing what happens isn’t the same as knowing how it happens. Getting there is the best part.

I was born in England - though both of my parents are American - and there's something about the 'Muppets' where they have this combination of English and American humor.

You can't cry on a diamond's shoulder, and diamonds won't keep you warm at night, but they're sure fun when the sun shines.

I don't feel like I have the intelligence to really inhabit a consistently high level of prose.

I feel like I've been able to live a dream life, but my view of things is absolutely inside behavior about how I behave and how I count on other people behaving.

As we say in the hood, I'm a stoop kid.

If God hadn't meant for us to eat sugar, he wouldn't have invented dentists.

When I accomplish a challenging goal it is one of the most powerful and wonderful feelings in the world.

I've been given an opportunity right now and I'm going to run through a wall to try to take advantage of it.

To a bibliophile, there is but one thing better than a box of new books, and that is a box of old ones.