I liked being able to portray a woman at this particular age and at this point in her life.

Black eyeliner says 'You've been through stuff, you know things'.

I watch soap operas. I bake brownies. Normalcy is coursing through my veins.

I would like a nice, powerful, mind-altering substance. Preferably one that will make my unborn children grow gills.

I like soap opera acting. If it's done really well, there's nothing better. It's old school. It's like what those melodramas in the '30s and '40s were like

But it's fun to be something, have that, and you don't have to be real. It's like, comedians. They go on and they're doing all these jokes. I would be like that if I were more awake

An actor's career relies on a lot of luck. Being in the right place at the right time.

In the '90s, indie movies could get financing, because financers gave money straight to directors... Now it's a different system. Indie movies got co-opted by the studio system.

I haven't seen a bear in person. I've seen deer. I have lots of woodchucks on my property. And bluebirds. Foxes.

My dad recently reminded me that my grandfather's cousin was Lefty Frizzell.

You're talking to someone, to a reader, and you get to express in the way you want to. And you get to play with it. It's kind of like acting, but it's on paper.

I want to combine a business major with studies in clothing and textiles.

It is always more difficult to fight one's own failings than the power of an adversary.

We know the Chinese have revealed millions of background information on millions of people in the United States, and these, I suppose, ultimately are part of international big-power politics.

Time glides with undiscover'd haste; The future but a length behind the past.

I have great confidence in human curiosity - even though I don't know what curiosity is from a biological point of view. One of its characteristics has got to be the willingness to explore.

Failure is merely feedback that there is something blocking the path of the emergence and expansion of the greatest version of yourself.

Temeraire-- Never fear; I am going; the Son of Heaven will not tolerate delays, and Barham gives me leave. Allegiance will carry us! Pray eat something --L.

When it comes time to do your own life, you either perpetuate your childhood or you stand on it and finally kick it out from under.

Women had enormous weight in America. And they still have. Because they are truly the padrone [owners, masters] of America.

If you don't understand history, you will not be able to deal with today's issues.