The big difference with the recognition is that when I go on an audition, I don't feel like they're testing my abilities as much as they're just seeing if it's a fit. So that's nice.

I only surround myself with people who are intellectually stimulating.

I'm interested in current affairs and social policy as a whole, but I don't watch politics for sport.

Right now I'm just thinking about school and trying to get those grades and keep them up! In case I become a Norma Desmond when I grow up, I can have something to fall back on!

I pray every night. I just talk to God and I can go to sleep. I don't worry anymore.

As actors we're supposed to be our character's advocate.

My family and school life are important to me.

People have good and bad days.

I was an international studies major.

People look to you to replace a part in their lives that they can't get back. You can't get the past back, you can't do it. We've all tried.

Even on the worst days I am without a doubt still happier doing this than I am doing anything else. On acting.

If you are lazy, and accept your lot, you may live in it. If you are willing to work, you can write your name anywhere you choose.

Is there evil but on earth? Or pain in every peopled sphere? Well, be grateful for the sounding watchword "Evolution" here.

I do feel that if you can write one good sentence and then another good sentence and then another, you end up with a good story.

If the rules of creativity are the norm for a company, creative people will be the norm.

Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men, for the nastiest of reasons, will somehow work for the benefit of us all.

War mages ordered, threatened and bitched. They didn't deal.

My dream was to write a book and see it published. I didn't dare imagine anything beyond that, so, I'm trying to keep my head on my shoulders.

For I had expected always Some brightness to hold in trust, Some final innocence To save from dust

I've heard some readers saying they wished the story was longer, and I completely understand that desire - we all like to sink into a nice, long novel.

Instead of our petulant, fretful, irritable human hastiness we should cultivate in our souls the patience which has learned to wait on God.