Ugly Betty' has definitely helped me cope with issues I would have never been able to cope with if I wasn't a part of a show that has such unique characters.
If we could have somehow stayed away from the public and the press, it might have been different, but every private issue seemed to be played out on the front page.
'Graveminder' is about a mortician, a young woman with commitment issues, a dead teenager, and a town called Claysville where the dead don't always stay dead.
We don't invent our natures. They're issued to us along with our lungs, our pancreas and everything else.
It's not surprising to me that in a country born of racial genocide, the issue of race is still an open wound on the American soul. We haven't dealt with it.
There's as much revealed in the way a person lifts a glass as in what they say about some political issue.
We're a divided country on sexual issues. That's why every news cycle brings more controversy.
I think that people should be paying a lot more attention to other issues, rather than who's the top 10 this or... who's the sexiest or the most beautiful.
If you talk about an issue, what comes back is a description of what you're wearing. Reporters only want to know how tall you are and if your teeth are capped.
A lot of attention has been going to social values - abortion, gay rights, other divisive issues - but economic values are equally important.
If we are to be biblical, then, the issue is not whether we should have a doctrine of predestination or not, but what kind we should embrace.
We have to recognise there are very few countries you will take the Games to where somebody doesn't have issues on foreign or domestic policy.
Just the circumstances of being in D.C., people give you books, and there are issues you want to learn more about, so you are tearing into as many as you can.
The American people want solutions to the problems our country faces. They may disagree on exactly how to address the issues, but they want them addressed all the same.
I don't feel particularly typecast because I think I do so many different kinds of things. Whether they're seen or not is another issue.
I think the Bravo test is really important for a number of reasons. It's kind of symbolic. It raises a lot of the issues that are related to the whole controversy over nuclear testing.
One of the things you learn being in the public eye is that you have the ability to raise awareness about serious issues, and, in the process, really help people.
I've never had an issue with studios. I believe in them as true creative partners in the process.
In spite of what some people claim, we are not in a post-racial era. I think it's still an important issue to bring up.
Turkey must find its place if, of course, it can heal its internal sores, and none is more malignant than the perennial Kurdish issue.
In November 2007, the White House issued a Declaration of Principles demanding that U.S. forces must remain indefinitely in Iraq and committing Iraq to privilege American investors.
