My balance is really bad. I just hope my clumsiness doesn't show through.

Remember, people only rain on your parade because they're jealous of your sun and tired of their shade.

If I don't like something that's going on in my life, I change it. And I don't sit and complain about it for a year.

I've made mistakes in my life for sure.

Embrace your curves and who you are. I feel proud if young girls look up to me and say, "I'm curvy, and I'm proud of it now".

I'm not trying to influence anyone else; I'm not saying, "Do what I do." I think it's a little pretentious to say, "I'm a role model"; I would never say that, and I don't think of myself that way.

I love when people underestimate me and then become pleasantly surprised.

It's time to recognise the Armenian Genocide.

Take and chance and don't ever look back. Never have regrets, just lessons learned.

I love the sun but don't have the time to get a good tan and keep it year-round, so I am a huge fan of tanning products.

I think I'll always be a hopeless romantic.

You see things You keep quiet about them. You understand.

I've been programming computers since elementary school, where they taught us, and I stuck with computer science through high school and college.

It is the destiny of the emigrant that the foreign land does not become his homeland: his homeland becomes foreign.

Because when something happens, she's the person I want to tell. The most basic indicator of love.

A good novel cannot be too long or a bad novel too short.

I always felt like I was born in the wrong time period. I felt like I should've been born in the mid-to-late '40s.

A friend is someone who knows where all your bodies are buried. Because they're the ones who helped you put them there." And sometimes, if you're really lucky, they help you dig them back up.

Mother: the most beautiful word on the lips of mankind.

I probably wanted to be a shopkeeper, because I like tills.

In our day the conventional element in literature is elaborately disguised by a law of copyright pretending that every work of art is an invention distinctive enough to be patented.