God is not out to point out your flaws or tell you how bad you messed up.
It's really important to stand up for yourself and not always agree with what people say if indeed you don't feel that that's true.
If I wake up during a dream I can usually go back to sleep and finish the story.
Thought about being a stand up comedienne for zombies, but when they eat you alive, they really eat you!!
Growing up, I thought I was going to be Madonna. I wanted to be a pop star. I wanted to dance and sing.
I just feel so lucky to tell stories and make up stories and share them with people.
Songwriting is hard - it's so easy to fall into the same traps. It's not like I wake up and songs flow out of me.
I already know what giving up feels like. I want to see what happens if I don’t.
The biggest place I look for validation is from my mother. That's the little girl in me that will never grow up.
The cutthroat avenues of rock 'n' roll, I am fed up with. I don't want anything to do with it.
I used to give up writing like some people would give up smoking.
Regarding the Panama Canal Treaty negotiations, they will find us standing up or dead, but never on our knees; NEVER!
It's not the case that carbon dioxide drives temperatures. When you leave Ice Ages, it's the other way around: The temperatures go up first, and then carbon dioxide levels go up.
Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing up is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.
When a man gets up to speak, people listen then look. When a woman gets up, people kook; then, if they like what they see, they listen.
I like the big smoky eyes look, and I always do my eyes first when I'm putting on my make-up.
In 1991, I co-founded my first start-up, Ink Development, which made software for an early tablet computer.
Animals don't have anyone to protect them. If we don't stand up, the people who are harming animals will never get stopped.
As I learned from growing up, you don't mess with your grandmother.
What other grown-up gets told how to do their job so often as a writer?
I think coughing up slugs was quite hard. Ron has a scene where he has to cough up these giant slugs.
