I don't watch the show - only bits and pieces of all of them. The only one I sat through was the pilot.

I've had a couple of long relationships. And I've had a couple of shorter relationships.

What I say now is that the way the world underestimates me will be my greatest weapon. People pat me on the head, and I go to myself, oh, and aren't they going to be surprised.

Shows can come and go. They can be a hit and then in three years, gone. There's some comfort in having the stability of a job and having children. It's a double-edged sword.

I embrace everything about Ally... I don't particularly see her as a whiner. One week she's tough, the next she's really weak. I love that. She's human.

I think that the character that I'm playing now is so fundamentally different than Ally that I haven't I haven't felt like I had to worry about it at all. But I definitely wanted to make a different choice.

Actually, I take it as a compliment. Diva is a derivative of divine. That's quite a title to carry around.

But I don't like to, tell people how old I am. I like that to be a mystery.

I don't watch the show - only bits and pieces of all of them. The only one I sat through was the pilot.

I've been doing a lot of hiking, which I love.

Well, I don't think I've ever consciously come up with tricks and tools to, kind of, hide. I do think I'm a bit more vigilant, in terms of safety issues and things. And sometimes it is kind of nice to try to hold onto your anonymity.

I am definitely a dog person. I feel like Webster and I are very much alike.

But it kills me, this fascination with celebrities' personal lives.

So people think I'm lying about my age all the time? It's the records that are wrong. I've never told anyone how old I am. The minute they ask me, I say 'That's none of your business.' So that means I've never once lied about my age. Now that's true!

And when I first came out from New York, I hadn't driven in a long time. Now I'm like Joe Speedster.

I'm close with my parents. I have a lot of acquaintances, but my very good close friends are few I can count my very good friends on one hand. And that's how I like it to be.

Whenever you move, I think you lose your history.

A lot of the tabloid stories are written so well, they're very clever and very funny. But you have to focus on what's really important and not read them - don't dive into it and don't get caught up in it.

I like to hike with my dog, Webster. It helps clear my mind.

The only real indulgence was buying a house. That was a pretty big step.

I do wish my breasts were bigger. Not big... but less small.

It's so funny how my name has always been such a big deal. When I was growing up, my family was always moving. I had to meet new people all the time. And they'd laugh.

Webster and I are very aloof. The two of us go and sit there by ourselves. I sit by myself in the corner with my book and the newspaper. He kind of runs around a little bit, and then he goes and sits on top of the picnic table. He never plays with other little dogs.

Sometimes when you play a character, you can feel it in your body. And I felt like I had characteristics of my dog: the way Webster moves, the way he holds his head. I kind of adapted it into this part unconsciously.

No, I am who I am. I'm not going to change for anybody.

I don't see myself as beautiful. I was a kid who was freckle-faced, and they used to call me 'hay head.'

There I was as a kid: a closeted homosexual who wants to be an actress. I had no choice! Wanting to act was something I was wired with when I was born. I never thought I would have success or celebrity, although I did want that. But what I wanted more than anything was to work.

Coaching in the NBA is not easy. It's like a nervous breakdown with a paycheck.

A faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal identity.

There is a direct relationship between how we feel about Jesus Christ and how we see ourselves. We cannot increase our devotion to the Savior without also obtaining a greater sense of purpose, identity, and conviction.

Air is traditionally 'thin,' but the more we learn about our atmosphere, the more substantial it becomes. In some places it is so filled with inorganic flotsam that it is almost thick enough to plough; in others, it has become so primed with the by-products of life that it comes close to being a living tissue in its own right.

One cannot accomplish anything without fanatacism.

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more so that we may fear less.

Big History studies the history of everything, offering a way of making sense of our world and our role within it.

Acting I'll do forever, but I want to produce and stuff as well.

The customer is always right

A child who is protected from all controversial ideas is as vulnerable as a child who is protected from every germ. The infection, when it comes- and it will come- may overwhelm the system, be it the immune system or the belief system.

I think Obamacare is one of the greatest moves that will be beneficial for everyone in this country.

I know when it's getting close to game time, I create a different playlist for each and every game. Before the game, to game time, to warm-ups, going to the stadium, I have a different playlist that puts me in a different mode.

Dropbox is my life.

If you don't ask, you don't get.

Persistence can change failure into extraordinary achievement.

In our society the sound of men complaining is like nails on a chalkboard.

October of 2011, Occupy protestors descended upon McPherson Square, and they decided to stay. Despite the clear language of the law, these protestors camped at McPherson Square with the definition of camping being sleeping or preparing to sleep.

There are the further difficulties of building a population out of a diversity of races, each at a different stage of cultural evolution, some in need of restraint, many in need of protection; everywhere a bewildering Babel of tongues.

The difference between 'lighght' and another type of poem with more words is that it doesn't have a reading process. Even a five-word poem has a beginning, middle, and end. A one-word poem doesn't. You can see it all at once. It's instant.

Most writers are vulnerable and insecure, and Kay Graham was more so than most.

Nowhere on this planet is the desert as fascinating as it is in Arizona.

I wrote 'Snowy' as a result of spending a week on a narrow boat with daily classes of children, helping them to write about canal life, the work of barges, the simple pleasure of watching the water creatures. There was no doubt that the star of their week was Snowy, the working barge horse who pulled us daily along the towpath.