I love what I do and I am surrounded by some incredible people.

Being cool is being your own self, not doing something that someone else is telling you to do.

I love funky styles. Not preppy or rock, just funky!

I am human like everyone else. I am aware that there are people who look up to me. When mistakes are made, they aren't intentional, and I constantly push myself to be a better person.

Confidence is key. Sometimes, you need to look like you're confident even when you're not.

I just lip gloss! It doesn't matter if it's $2 or $30.

The Lion King always makes me cry, especially when Simba's father gets trampled.

I don't go long without eating. I never starve myself: I grab a healthy snack.

My style is boho chic. I love that time period - the patterns, the prints, the people, the music, the vibe.

Do not just look at your boyfriend as just a boyfriend. Look at him as a friend, too.

I want to be strong and empowered. I want to shock everybody.

Still enveloped in a blanket of dreams he (life) continued to lie still, pretended as if he was in a deep slumber.

An often-repeated assertion in the body of film criticism I have written is the assertion that movies do not just mirror the culture of any given time they also create it.

I try not to deprive myself of anything. I don't do the low-carb thing or anything like that.

And you know, I agree to everything: I will condemn, I will forget, I will give comfort to the enemy, Darkness will be light and sin lovely.

I feel it is a blessing, a duty, an honor, that we give the love that we have, and we share the lives that we have with our fullest heart.

The 'success' of the sermon is utterly dependent on the God who breaks through and 'grasps' us, or we cannot be 'grasped.

I wanted to write a big novel, something epic in scale.

Ours is not so much an age of vulgarity as of vulgarization; everything is tampered with or touched up, or adulterated or watered down, in an effort to make it palatable, in an effort to make it pay.

The Arab and Islamic countries suffer from severe backwardness, and the Western world wants to make them even more backward.

The problem with incompetence is its inability to recognize itself.