Know your history. It can teach you who you are, where you have come from, and how to be a better person as a result.

It's so hard to fight against someone who is stuck in what they believe whether you agree with it or not.

After high school, I had $2,000 saved, and I packed everything I could into my '95 Nissan Sentra with no air-conditioning, and I drove out to L.A.

Climbing trees is still one of my favorite things to do. A tree and a good book and I'm happy.

God has always been the head of my life, even before I knew it.

I just love drama. I love the idea of exploring relationships, whatever they may be. That's fun for me.

I am a woman who stands up for what she believes.

I like what looks good on me and, as a result, I don't find myself drawn to one specific designer all the time.

My mom always wanted me be a ballerina, and I was just adamant that I wanted to be a track star. I wanted nothing to do with ballet.

I would love to try my hand at directing and even producing in some kind of way. Something about that intrigues me, but for directing I could completely see myself trying.

I remember thinking, in Kansas my name will be Evett - which is my middle name. I didn't want to explain to anyone how to say Em-a-yat-zee.

Books may look like nothing more than words on a page, but they are actually an infinitely complex imaginotransference technology that translates odd, inky squiggles into pictures inside your head.

You can plan on a change in the weather and time, but I never planned on you changing you mind.

Hold fast, therefore, O circular philosopher, to thy centre, and drive the globe along its orbit by the momentum of thy thought.

And why? Because they are suffocating within the lines that define their town and their times. And sometimes lines are made to be crossed.

In writing, as in life, always be true to your character.

Sure, I've seen people like you before - but I had to pay an admission.

Because I have so much life on my pitches, I can get away with getting too much of the plate every now and then.

Every time you wake up and ask yourself, What good things am I going to do today?, remember that when the sun goes down at sunset, it will take a part of your life with it.

If there's a distinct group of Americans who harbor open contempt for constitutional principles and rule of law, it's lawyers, judges and members of Congress.

I’m very conscious of the fact that you can’t do it alone. It’s teamwork. When you do it alone you run the risk that when you are no longer there nobody else will do it.