I look much more civilized than I actually am.

I am a control freak.

I always go to the Cannes Film Festival and it's just such a glamorous time.

Bridesmaids are never going to upstage the bride.

I love vintage and prints.

I'm actually an incredibly disorganized, messy person.

Sometimes if I can't sleep and I am up in the night, I will start researching things - it could be an image I've seen, or a book I am reading.

My great-grandfather was in the army in India, and we have photographs of my family there in full Victorian dress. They're incredibly romantic.

My wedding was at home, so I didn't really want to wear a veil in my house. Instead I wore a lot of diamond hair clips. They were brooches, actually, designed by Lorraine Schwartz.

I enjoyed studying costume, learning about the corsetry and the historical context of fashion. I never had any real intention of being a costume designer.

My mother says I'm like a disease that can walk into a room and get it infected. I can destroy things in seconds.

Knowledge is a weapon. I intend to be formidably armed.

If you are not willing to stand up for anything or anybody, then why should the Creator take a single step to help you?

Education is our path to change. Minds and hearts are brightened via learning.

I guess a little bit hero is enough. A little bit hero is all anyone really needs to be.

The church is God's remnant in a country, able to change the life of the nation

Is that a rule? Do you have a rule that you can’t kiss people in the morning?

A shift is necessary toward lifestyles less geared to environmental damaging consumption patterns.

We live in a world so utterly infused with digitality that it makes even the slightest action ripple across the collection of data bases we call the web.

I've kind of got an out in cancer. It keeps things in perspective for me.

I grew up in the segregated South, right here in Lynchburg, Virginia.