And now, I'm a best selling author, a different sort of fairy tale that I still sometimes wonder when I'll wake up from.
The fact is that movie stars are as insecure as the rest of us - if not more so. Many live in a luxurious bubble in which their best friends are their trainer, their hairdresser, their publicist, and their Kabbalah instructor.
There's so much saint in the worst of them, and so much devil in the best of them, that a woman who's married to one of them, has nothing to learn of the rest of them.
'Tempting the Best Man' centers around Madison Daniels, who's had a major crush on her brother's best friend since she was a girl.
Two quilters who have just met will be strangers only until their mutual passion for quilting is revealed. Then they can talk for hours like the best of friends.
Indeed, the best way to think of willpower is not as some shapeless behavioral trait but as a sort of psychic muscle, one that can atrophy or grow stronger depending on how it's used.
My beloved dog defied treatment from the best and most expensive veterinarians, holistic practitioners, trainers, and animal communicators. He was simply beyond my ability to repair or control.
Overall, I'd say I was an awesome bookseller, but probably not the best book shelver. I loved recommending books and helping people find books.
Michael Jordon may have been the best basketball player in history, but he couldn't have won six NBA titles without a team.
Some of the best writing I've done, whether I'm shooting a story or thinking of a script, I write it in my head as I'm running. Running literally jogs my brain.
Richard Nixon was the best thing that ever happened to journalism. I mean this guy was wonderful. Just when you thought he could get no worse, he got worse.
Sometimes, I think the best kind of poem is one in which there is an acute balance between what is humorous and that which is very serious. That balance is very hard to strike. But it can be done.
I do my best to build a strong factual foundation for each of my novels and rely upon my author's notes to keep my conscience clear.
Every New Year is the direct descendant, isn't it, of a long line of proven criminals?
I don't think I'm made of the right stuff to be a politician. I think I'm made to be a loose cannon.
I loved the sound of the ocean, the breaking surf, the vastness, but still didn't feel terribly comfortable in it.
The 'takings' clause of the Fifth Amendment is for conservatives what the equal protection clause of the 14th is for liberals.
We are on Sunday night because that is where they put us 30-odd years ago. I think we became a habit.
There are seven winners of the Monaco Grand Prix on the starting line today, and four of them are Michael Schumacher.
Jonah Peretti is one of the smartest web publishers out there. And Buzzfeed is an aggressive and dynamic company.
The State acquires power... and because of its insatiable lust for power it is incapable of giving up any of it. The State never abdicates.
