I sing as an actress. Whatever I'm singing about, I just become the story.

If you want the rainbow you gotta put up with the rain.

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.

Storms make trees take deeper roots.

I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb... and I also know that I'm not blonde.

It's a good thing I was born a girl, otherwise I'd be a drag queen.

If you don't like the road you're walking, start paving another one.

A peacock that rests on his feathers is just another turkey.

I'm on a seafood diet - I see food, I eat it.

I look just like the girls next door... if you happen to live next door to an amusement park.

We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.

I believe that God gives you hopes and dreams in a size that's too large, so you have something to grow into.

They say what doesn't kill u makes u stronger.. but truth is sometimes it does kill u, it kills a part of u then it makes u stronger.

Even before you step up to the ball, have a full battle plan for the hole worked out.

In Kurdistan, theres a lot of hardship - a lot of wars, a lot of bitter and difficult lifestyles. And witnessing all those made me a director.

Conceptually, we may call truth what we cannot change; metaphorically, it is the ground on which we stand and the sky that stretches above us.

It is a dream of mankind to fly like a bird.

An idea does not pass from one language to another without change.

The more you love, the more you crave.

Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft.

Too many people write books because they want to be a New York Times best-seller. They want the glory and the fame.