I think I always had joie de vivre. But I had pretty bad self-esteem growing up and much of my adult life.

If you risk nothing, then you risk everything.

Archers are pretty focused.

Archery is something that I took up later and didn't know I had a natural aptitude for.

Kids need to see entertainment where females are valued as much as males.

The main thing about archery is a battle with yourself. You can ruin it all. Once you have learned the technique, the point is to recreate the perfect technique over and over and over.

Look at the number of cop shows and lawyer shows and forensics shows... I think there could be room for two quite different examinations of the same political office.

So many female characters are the girlfriend of the person having the adventure. I want to play baseball, I don't want to be the girlfriend of the one [who plays].

I wish I knew who said it, but my favorite quote is, "If a person can do it, I can do it."

Instead of trying to manufacture feelings, use the way you already feel. Or at least add that in.

It's partly because our culture so hyper-sexualizes females that if you don't measure up to whatever we're forced to think is the standard, then you feel inadequate.

Life wants you to be able to fully receive and give affection and love.

I like being a strong, independent woman, and to be honest, I was never afraid to be on my own.

Now the standard cure for one who is sunk is to consider those in actual destitution or physical suffering

Science isn't about WHY, it's about WHY NOT!

Will the real Red Reaper please stand up?

I was obsessed with Claire Danes because she was Juliet. There is something about her still to this day - she is a brilliant actress. And she did make out with both of my boyfriends.

Fiction is experimentation; when it ceases to be that, it ceases to be fiction.

History, that is to say, the unconscious, universal life of humanity, in the aggregate, every moment profits by the life of kings for itself, as an instrument for the accomplishment of its own ends.

Some are born to invent, others to embellish; but the gilder attracts more attention than the architect.

You have to take Bible prophecy literally, just like everything else in the Bible.