I wish I knew who said it, but my favorite quote is, "If a person can do it, I can do it."

If you risk nothing, then you risk everything.

Archers are pretty focused.

Archery is something that I took up later and didn't know I had a natural aptitude for.

Kids need to see entertainment where females are valued as much as males.

The main thing about archery is a battle with yourself. You can ruin it all. Once you have learned the technique, the point is to recreate the perfect technique over and over and over.

Look at the number of cop shows and lawyer shows and forensics shows... I think there could be room for two quite different examinations of the same political office.

So many female characters are the girlfriend of the person having the adventure. I want to play baseball, I don't want to be the girlfriend of the one [who plays].

Instead of trying to manufacture feelings, use the way you already feel. Or at least add that in.

It's partly because our culture so hyper-sexualizes females that if you don't measure up to whatever we're forced to think is the standard, then you feel inadequate.

I drive [Susan Sarandon] nuts. I'm always talking about her being my hero. I'm sure she's probably sick of it.

Self-education is the greatest self-liberation.

Some fictions become fixtures in the real city. Their stories are so powerful that they leap off the page on to the streets, irreversibly altering the place where they were set.

Taking over Kingston Shoes would be the final string that would unravel and cut them off from one another for good.

[I]t is that we are too apt to despise what appears to be neither good nor beautiful, and thus we lose what is helpful and salutary.

One advantage of static factory methods is that, unlike constructors, they have names.

In Britain, polls show large majorities in favour of mansion taxes and higher taxes on the finance sector.

It's the decomposition that gets me. You spend your whole life looking after your body. And then you rot away.

I want to own a team one day. You know, that's my next goal.

The insanity of the collective egoic mind, amplified by science and technology, is rapidly taking our species to the brink of disaster. Evolve or die: that is our only choice now.

I do swear a lot, but the advantage is that having played abroad, I can choose a different language from the referee's.