I'm really just a normal person.

It's not the most intellectual job in the world, but I do have to know the letters.

I have a family and two cats; I get up with my kids early in the morning.

I'm really just a normal person.

I do everything that everybody else does.

I enjoy getting dressed as a Barbie doll.

I'm a mom, a full-time mom when I'm not taping. I do the carpool thing, and bake the cookies, and do the homework.

I feel for the players.

When I was having that alphabet soup, I never thought that it would pay off.

I think people think of me as this elegant person because they always see me dressed up.

I will say I remember the best thing in terms of publicity was being on the cover of Newsweek.

There's five cameras, I don't know how many people in the audience... depending on where we're taping, there can be anywhere from 300 to 5,000 people, so the contestants are nervous.

So, I understand when they make a mistake and everyone at home is throwing their shoe at the television set.

You know, we're very private, and I think that we really separate and try to keep our privacy to ourselves. There's things that people assume a lot of times, and we understand that people are interested, but we really try to keep our family life private as much as we can.

Probably the most visible example of unintended consequences, is what happens every time humans try to change the natural ecology of a place.

It ain't no joke when you lose your vinyl.

Divide your movements into easy-to-do sections. If you fail, divide again.

I threw my 20th birthday party at Brown, and I didn't even have to say to anyone not to put pictures on Facebook. Not a single picture went up. That was when I knew I'd found a solid group of friends, and I felt like I belonged.

I feel like when I play, I play tough. That's the New York in me. That's the street tournaments.

Even rats can only be kicked around for so long before they've had enough.

We wish that all countries around the world honor our wishes and our Jihad, and we avoid interfering in their business.

I've had a passion for horses since I was very young - I used to sit on the floor in front of the races on television and pretend to be a jockey - and I first began reading the racing form on the set of 'The Partridge Family.'

Designing a house is like doing a movie: Once you're done, you want to say, 'I hope you all enjoy it.'

So long as the New Testament served to decipher the Old, it was taken as an absolute norm.

I knew a ton of actors and was friends with them, but I never dated actresses. I tried to date 'normal' people because the Hollywood dating rule is 'one star per couple' because it's quite a challenge to match the egos of two actors.

The one thing I witnessed over and over were these pretty young people who would throw themselves into a cause larger than themselves and believe they could change the world.

It's okay to be a bad writer if you have something to say.

If you want to invest in early-stage technologies, putting a timeframe on it does behold you to Silicon Valley economics. You've got a certain time period where you have to make the money. And you have to invest that money whether you find good companies or not.

I collect old portraits. They're all just interesting pictures of people, and you just kind of wonder who they were and what they were. There's a guy - I don't know who he is, but he's wearing a suit. He's got his arms folded, and he looks like he sold insurance or something. I'm just wondering why someone painted him.

I have a wonderful respect for old people.

Too often, the landlord-tenant relationship is unbalanced with all the power on the side of unscrupulous landlords.

Enlightened despots are mythical creatures; real despots seem more interested in stealing money or installing their sons after them.

With less competition to fear, companies are emboldened to raise their mark-ups and profits. That lifts share prices and thus the wealth of already wealthy shareholders.

I know why they don't like me because they want the money I have.

I think there will always be a double standard between males and females so I think that an actress is more likely to protect her public persona so to speak than an actor would be.

It is up to us to give ourselves recognition. If we wait for it to come from others, we feel resentful when it doesn't, and when it does, we may well reject it.

All writers know how important a good title is. It's the first thing readers see, along with a knock-your-socks-off cover - a seductive 'come hither' for the story within.