The more people know about you, the more face-time you get in the media, the harder your job becomes to create a character in whom people suspend disbelief.

I have tender, romantic associations with upstate New York.

Music is what our feelings sound like.

There are women who make things better, there are women who change things, there are women who make things happen, who make a difference. I want to be one of those women.

In the quiet moments, the discoveries are made.

Your soul either feels lifted by something that you read, or it feels squashed by it.

No role is more challenging, rewarding and inspiring than my real-life role as a mom and a wife.

There's no wrong way to experience a film.

Am I ambitious? I used to be afraid of that word but now I think ambition is a good thing.

I think I always try to be accommodating and open and available and proving for my director. I love to give as many takes as they want. I love to give them as many choices as they want.

Doubt is the middle position between knowledge and ignorance. It encompasses cynicism but also genuine questioning.

I want the municipality to be a helping hand to the man with a desire of sympathy, to help the fallen when it is not in their power to help themselves.

Cities with all their advantages have something hostile to liberal learning, the seductions are so subtle and accost the senses so openly on all sides.

The better you think , the better decisions you make . the better decisions you make , the better actions you take . the better actions you take , the better results you get

Cousins are part of your life so stick with cuz, not friends.

That the sun will not rise tomorrow is no less intelligible a proposition, and implies no more contradiction, than the affirmation, that it will rise.

What the church is really concerned about is what endures.

I can become very emotional about math, although I'm not that good at it.

Property is in its nature timid and seeks protection, and nothing is more gratifying to government than to become a protector.

The hallmark of my books is the relationships that define women's lives.

I can't see the future, but it's grim. The depletion of resources - we're living in this dine-and-dash economy.