But at school, I wasn't athletic, and if you're not athlete in high school, it's kind of hard to find your place, so play practice seemed perfect, especially if you were as uncoordinated as I was.

I don't know how you get dressed if you live in Wales, because it's pouring rain and then it's hot sunshine, and then it might hail. It's just so confusing.

I was never the girl who walked down the centre of the hallway snapping people out of her way.

In Texas it's always hot, dry, sunny, not a cloud in the sky.

There's no changing your mind about whom you love. That's part of the tough thing about being in love - it's sort of undeniable.

It takes a lot of guts to get up on top of a bar and dance.

I was bookish and dorky in high school, so the best part of this movie was getting to be on the other side.

She tries to get a waitressing job for a while - I mean, she's looking for a while before she finds Coyote Ugly - and it's hard to get a waitressing job in the city.

Well, love is confusing at all ages, but especially when you're 17.

I think that you love who you love, and there are people who you love that people aren't going to understand why, and that sort of doesn't really matter.

I had just done what she does in the story just about a year earlier - I moved from New Jersey and came to New York and was working at a bar, and you know, trying to make it.

Books turn people into isolated individuals, and once that's happened, the road only grows rockier. Books wire you to want to be Steve McQueen, but the world wants you to be [email protected].

The world accommodates you for fitting in, but only rewards you for standing out.

They said they respect me, which means, their judgment is crazy.

Devon had been so lonely, so terribly lonely, for so long. The kind of lonely that sears, that burrows its way deep inside a heart and throbs. Like a gnawing hunger.

I like writing. It's partly control freak, and partly I really like what I do for a living. I have the luckiest job in the world. I can get up every day and do what I love for a living.

I think that, ah, I'm a very goofy sort of person in many ways.

Save others, snatching them out of the fire.

For the first time, the nation will have goals, benchmarks, and measureable outcomes that will help us tackle the childhood obesity epidemic one child, one family, and one community at a time.

My definition of a good hotel is a place I'd stay at.

I was ready to die but give my consent never. Never, never.