My parents had a Boston terrier, but we never became friends.

My high-school a cappella teacher would embarrass me in front of the choir. 'Mavis, you're in the basement. Mavis, you're singing with the boys.' I said, 'Mr. Finch, my voice isn't soprano. I can't...

I'm a daddy's girl.

The fastest way to get me to go out and do something is to tell me no way I can do it.

I've always been a super-fan of television storytelling. It took me a while to figure that out in a career capacity, but certainly in a life capacity, I've been an avid viewer of television for...

Should the federal government be giving people cellphones?

I've always been hungry, but when people ask what drives you - 'How do you stay so driven throughout this whole thing?' - you just don't stop. It's every single day. The people that know me and the...

I never set out to be part of a genre, because I listen to all types of music.

I feel sorry for kids these days. They get so much homework. Remember the days when we put a belt around our two books and carried them home? Now they're dragging a suitcase. They have school all day,...

Manufacturers must accept responsibility for their customers' safety.

There are very few VR games with really strong characters and voice acting.

I mean, we're - if I may say so - we're experts at using materials and processes in ways for which they were never intended.

I can tell you as a fact that if you'd asked anyone in Hollywood one year before 'Pirates of the Caribbean' had come out, they'd have told you the pirate movie was a dead genre. And it's not that it's...

The first person besides my mother who believed in me was a man whose last name I never knew. He was my boss, the manager of Swenson's Ice Cream shop.

I'm just a confident woman.

We're living through the second Industrial Revolution.

I don't necessarily want people to know all my intimate feelings about Tracey.

Thomas Young was born in 1731 in upstate New York. The child of impoverished Irish immigrants, he grew up in a log cabin without the benefit of a formal education. But he was an avid reader who began...

A good balance of winning and losing is important. If you just win all the time, you won't get anything out of it; having some tough losses can be really important.

I've always talked to players about perception and reality. I don't worry about perception. There may be some of that, that people want to attach to a good name, but the reality is that some good...

I'm one who demands a lot from people. I'm not afraid to look at alternative ways in city government. That's what I've done in my two years and will continue to do in the next four.

I really believe in a community effort.

When I feel like I'm doing my best work, there is a bit of a freedom, a bit of flight that you're not so much losing yourself but you're sort of in the zone.

We would never do anything for the sole purpose of bumming people out or upsetting people.

I left the Midwest when I was twelve years old, and I haven't lived in a small town since.

When I started in 2007, YouTube was just a fun hobby for others and myself.

My skirt fell off on stage during a performance of Hairspray on Broadway, revealing my fat suit over my own natural fat suit. I turned to the audience and said, 'Now you know why I spent six years in...

We come. We go. And in between we try to understand.

The ancient universities were not based on how many credit hours you're taking or whether you've completed your credit hours. Instead, they focused more on customized, personalized learning... where...

I like actors - I used to be one.