I wanted to be the girl that talks about getting a guy. I felt like that was a different approach to writing.
I own about 70 L.A. Dodgers snapbacks in different colors.
I use about 20 different colours to retain the luminance in my work.
Globalisation for a startup is exciting; you have to learn so fast about the different cultures of the world.
I don't really care that much about genre labels. I tend to write across a variety of different genres.
Here's the deal on Texas. It's big. So big, there's about five distinct and different places here, separated from one another geologically, topographically, botanically, ethnically, culturally, and climatically.
There are always different roles and questions to be asked about certain characters.
There were definitely curveballs in my growing up, from a family aspect. My parents got divorced when I was in second grade. I moved around a lot. Actually, I went to about four different schools when I was in fourth grade.
The thing that's good about Hip Hop is that it has experimented with a lot of different sounds and music.
I'm about as monolingual as you come, but nevertheless, I have a variety of different languages at my command, different styles, different ways of talking, which do involve different parameter settings.
I spend a lot of time obsessing about getting a dignified eight hours' sleep.
There is nothing fast or easy about diplomacy. I have no illusions about that.
What about stocks? You got to buy them. What if they break? You have to buy the dips.
Maybe if I'd had more direct contact with death, I wouldn't find it so fascinating and I wouldn't write about it so much.
It was ability that mattered, not disability, which is a word I'm not crazy about using.
People are uncomfortable about disability, and so interactions can become unintentionally uncomfortable.
I had disagreements with all my neighbors about my dogs. I had a disagreement with myself about my dogs. They were noisy.
Public disapproval is the price I pay for writing about the royals.
Barack Obama has injected fresh momentum into efforts - stalled for a decade - to bring about nuclear disarmament.
Pop music, disco music, and heavy metal music is about shutting out the tensions of life, putting it away.
