I always thought the Vancouver Olympics would be my last destination, but I'm extending it to Sochi... I want to start anew, not as an Olympic medalist but just as yet another figure skater.
After a couple of failed attempts, I came up with a weird tuning where I was dropping the G string down a step so that it became a seventh, and it got me to a place where I could play all these figures fairly easily. It was not an easy thing to work ...
Sometimes when you get on a new movie you kind of how to figure out the way other people work and it can be like being the new kid in high school where you're just trying to find out where your place is on the movie or on the set.
To be a writer was always my greatest aim. I remember writing a play about Guy Fawkes when I was 10. I suppose it's significant, at least to me, that my first work should be about a historical figure.
Your work isn't just to learn and say the lines. Your work is to figure out what the chatter in your brain is, that's going on under the lines. It doesn't matter whether you're speaking or not speaking because your mind is working the way your charac...
I work for Fox News as a commentator. I say whatever I want. I'm the blonde on the left, figuratively and literally - the one who's usually smiling because it's T.V., not the Supreme Court or Congress, and I find civility more effective in any event.
I've loved some gadgets that were not worthy, and I've loved gadgets that I would have loved more if I had waited for their developers to figure out how to really make them work, but I loved them anyway.
...bow to genius, but to the authority of that genius - not the display of talent...
...authority is the unmistakeable tone in the voice of a true writer...
To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough to make me ambitious.
I didn't have any concept of age or authority. I remember realising, Oh, the world has rules and we don't.
I am the sole author of the dictionary that defines me.
The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
I am the author of my Life and Lovestory, I wrote it in poetry
We don't want bookstores to die. Authors need them, and so do neighborhoods.
The tensions between authority and the people need to be heard, especially when they are suffering and they can't eat.
The chief glory of every people arises from its authors.
The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far-reaching consequence of submission to authority.
Desires stay unaware of man’s fragile existence authored by scarcity
If you want to challenge yourself as an Author, raise the bar as a reader. -Suzanne Steele
I realised early on that being an author is a hugely misunderstood job.
