I was the lead in two musicals, and I took dance classes.

Everybody at school knew who I was because I'm just a really friendly person.

I am a very open, social, friendly person, and when it comes to people approaching me and asking for an autograph, I am totally cool with doing any of that. It's a lot of fun.

You've got to be fine with who you are.

I like outgoing girls with a lovely smile and beautiful eyes.

I love competition and really going for it and doing my best, but losing isn't really upsetting to me. I feel like if I do lose, the other person really deserved it.

French fries. I have been obsessed with them since I was born. I like big, big steak fries, curly fries, seasoned fries - any kind!

I can do a really high-pitched cartoon voice. Everybody always say they like that.

Once in a while you start having second thoughts, then you read a letter from someone that lifts your spirits so much - it really makes a huge difference. I love reading them.

If I'm in a bad mood, my thing is I go clean! That's what relaxes me! I go and clean everything.

Kids look up to me, and it's really incredible to be in that position.

The world has been printing books for 450 years, and yet gunpowder still has a wider circulation. Never mind! Printer's ink is the greater explosive: it will win.

Life is a fantasy.

Devi-Mahatmayam has special meaning for spirituality, With illumination, wisdom, strength - to freedom finally!- 150 -

Horror on earth is real and it is everyday. It is like a flower or like the sun

The Republic is weak and broken." I narrow my eyes. "But it is still your country. Fight for it. This is your home, not theirs.

I got an early education from television.

A final proof of our ideas can only be obtained by detailed studies on the alterations produced in the amino acid sequence of a protein by mutations of the type discussed here.

I think in life, people know what they want. They want to survive, they want to have a family. They want to procreate because it's in the genetic law.

I am shyer than most people think.

Anybody who has had experience of poetesses knows that they may forgive a punch on the jaw, but never a suggestion that they would be wiser to give up versifying.