You need people around you that care about you and are thinking about you in your best interest. And keep your mind straight.

Portraying Pocahontas' story well was important to me because she was a real person and these were real events in her life.

Yes, I’m proud to be indigenous. I’m half-Quechua-Huachipaeri from Peru.

I hope to contribute to a global warming of hearts and a climate change in human consciousness.

I prefer home-schooling because you can work at your own pace and go towards more what you're interested in, whether it be history or geography or math.

My birthday is Feb. 11, and I'm both excited and not excited by it. You'll never be 15 again, and you really, really need to savor every day like it's your last.

Films are very influential, and I especially feel a responsibility to tell stories that have been pushed aside. Being able to shed light on issues that need to be brought to the world.

My father's Peruvian! I actually have a lot of family in Cuzco. I'm also Swiss, Alaskan, French, Spanish and Italian.

There is so much hope in a little flower and so many flowers in a little hope!

Words differently arranged have a different meaning, and meanings differently arranged have different effects.

Hot flush, raging bluch. Ice flash, instant crash.

No, no," Mr. Darling always said, "I am responsible for it all. I, George Darling, did it. MEA CULPA, MEA CULPA." He had had a classical education.

I was very strict on that point. No devouring classmates." Jeremy rolled his eyes. "Other parents warn their kids not to talk to strangers. I had to warn mine not to eat them.

I will never fully understand; that is the nature of such creatures. Or is this Inner Truth now, this that is happening to me? I will wait. I will see. Which it is. Perhaps it is both.

The more you read the novella, the more you should wonder, I think, which judgments are to be taken as bedrock.

Global warming my gluteus maximus

Life will not bear refinement. You must do as other people do.

No Child Left Behind ... is a giraffe with an elephant's body. ... You can't take the vision of Ted Kennedy and merge it to the public policy of George Bush and come out with anything that works.