As The O.C. started up again, I started to feel myself potentially getting pulled away.

I want every character be an outsider in some way.

We just happened to come along at time where there hadn't been a new young adult drama that also could appeal to adults as well in quite some time. We sort of found a little bit of a niche.

As The O.C. started up again, I started to feel myself potentially getting pulled away.

There is always drama and there will always be drama, but its the way its presented in my head that makes it so interesting. Everyone gets their time in the middle of the drama.

We don't hold anything back. We go for broke, and if we have a good idea for a story line, we just use it because you never know and because the dynamics of the show are going to change.

You gotta strike while the iron's hot.

If it happened to me, it can happen to anyone.

I am the kind of person that takes everything as is and then look at it from the outside looking in.

You have to act like a responsible professional in the industry regardless of your age.

Ten-year plan? No, three-year plan! I'm in a hurry.

There's got to be a little bit of reality show fatigue happening.

Certainly there's got to be a little bit of reality show fatigue happening.

The trap is that you then just start doing stuff about Hollywood, which I don't really want to do.

It is my goal to learn as much about the people I'm surrounded by. I am slowly widening who I am close with, and at the same time, growing further away from others.

I'd started working when I was 21 and had been very determined about my career, very focused, even as a little kid, so it was something I had been working at for a long time.

The characters are that vague TV high school age, but they'll be in high school as long as we need them to be.

The best years are behind me.

Year Two is a critical year for any television show.

It's really hard in this day and age, with radio and MTV being so consolidated, to get new music out there. I think we've become a really legitimate, viable avenue for getting new music out there.

Last year, at the beginning of the year, we couldn't get arrested, so I'll take this. Feast versus famine.

The support that we have from the network in terms of watching us at an unusual time in the year and playing our episodes three times in a given week until we built an audience... is exceptional.

I think our show is very different from Orange County.

Certainly the experiences of Seth and his relationship to his parents and his point of view of the world are very similar to my own and very much based on my experiences at the University of Southern California.

The press always ends up being much nicer than I expect. A lot of times they say something snarky about you, but then you meet them in person and they couldn't be nicer.

I think you're only as good as the work that you do.

It's my experience that the fluidity of sexuality with younger people is more accepted.

Like they said about The West Wing, you can't do a show about Washington until you can.

The girls in high school who watched 90210? I was watching Seinfeld.

He was conservative in the old fashioned sense of cautious.

Governing today means giving acceptable signs of credibility. It is like advertising and it is the same effect that is achieved commitment to a scenario.

My son has been known to throw a book at the television set when he called for me to come play and I was obviously busy in the box. But I'm told that children of television performers grow up thinking that all mommies or daddies work on TV and that it's no big deal.

I never thought I was gonna live to 30.

Environmental concern is a phenomena that tends to rise in a nation after a certain level of wealth.

I've been a strong financial and political supporter of, first, President Bush Sr. when he was running for president, and even when he ran for president a time or two and failed.

When Americans are faced with the prospect that they can never earn their way to wealth, they have two choices: to rebel against the system, or to settle into depressed complacency.

I take it for granted that you do not wish to hear an echo from the pulpit nor from the theological class-room.

Me being a black girl in London, whose mom is first-generation African and whose dad is West Indian, gives me a different view. I'm coming at soul from my own place.

I think of myself as a fairly logical, scientific and somewhat reserved person. Maura Isles, the Boston medical examiner who appears in five of my books, is me. Almost everything I use in describing her, from her taste in wine to her biographical data, is taken from my own family. Except I don't have a serial killer as a mother!

I will never understand why people get so upset at things I don't even remember saying.

Let's bring in Donald Trump. He wants to lower taxes across the board for individuals and large and small businesses, significantly reduce burdensome regulations, and unleash America's energy resources.

It doesn't cost anything to replicate code. So the companies that make code, that's why they've done so well. We take it for granted now, but why is it that code is free? It's because somebody built this self-replicating process.

When I sing, it's just... comfort is a stupid word, but it is.

To me, the appeal of opera lies in the fact that a myriad of singers and instruments, each possessed of different qualities of voice and sound, against the backdrop of a grand stage and beautiful costumes, come together in one complete and impressive drama.

I'm an actress, model, and singer.

As, however, the port in reality lies in thirty-two degrees thirty-four minutes, according to the observations that have been made, they went much beyond it, thus making the voyage much longer than was necessary.

I started out as an artist, and what I do is verbal paintings. I paint a picture. Hopefully, you'll see the characters and what they're doing and what they're saying.

Country music is some of the best-written music in the world, so yeah, one day, I would keep my mind open to doing a country record.

I've always liked traveling around Europe and seeing the architecture. The buildings in capital cities have been there for hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of years. Some look better than the new ones.