I don't see the country audience looking forward to an out male singer. There are rumors about people but no one ever confirms because there is a tremendous amount of money at stake.

I love to start characters in a place where you think you know them. We can make all kinds of assumptions about them and think they have no redeeming qualities, but like everyone, they're complex.

I think of feminism as more of a political ideology.

Nashville is the place where I first realized how impossible it is to look at someone and know what is inside them, what special something they possess.

One of the magical things about Nashville is just how many incredibly talented people are here and the way they support each other.

When people know I wrote 'Thelma and Louise,' they don't want to mess with me.

The world will provide you with every imaginable obstacle, but the one most difficult to overcome will be the lack of faith in yourself. Leave it to others to have doubts about you.

By luck I mean, when opportunity meets preparation.

Chick flick is not a term used to praise a movie. Nobody says 'it's a great chick flick.' It's a way of being derisive. I'm not clear why it's ok to do it.

If the same energy went into marketing movies to women as they do on the other demographics we might see more of a spike.

I tried to get a baseball movie made a couple of years ago and I don't think it didn't happen because I was a woman, but because sports movie don't sell internationally.

The only way to build a fan base is to have a lot of material out there for readers to find. You can't manufacture a fan base. You create it, one story at a time.

If my home is indeed a sanctuary, I want to treat everything I bring into it as sacred.

Zizi was young and often confused about how to live his life, �and when he made a choice he clung to it with fierce resolve, �as if to beat his uncertainty into submission.

I really like action. I really liked running around. I loved being really physical. I'm a big believer in it's okay if this job is really about entertaining people.

Existence begins in every instant.

If [God] has work for me to do, I cannot die.

People aren't comfortable thinking of women as people. Like we're not people, we're women, and that means something completely different, especially when you have power.

When the boys at school found out I had a potentially fatal peanut allergy, they used to hold me up against a wall and play Russian Roulette with a bag of Revels!

I didn’t have much school. Three years.

The power of a dream is that it frees up your imagination to think about the best possible scenario for your life.