When I was 18 I already had a business going..

Football was everything to me. There was the physical aspect, sure. I did pushups and sit-ups every night, even as a kid. But I also just studied the….

When you're a kid and get your first bike, you want to go somewhere you've never been before. That's like Pokémon. Everybody shares the same experien….

Things [only] exist once they are represented..

What I really value about being a writer is that I can go to rehearsal when I want to, and then, when I need to be at home writing or with my kids, I….

The single largest variable that predicts SAT scores is family income. If you want higher SAT scores, you need to get your kids born into wealthier f….

I want to be someone that kids in my community look up to and want to strive to give back when they grow up..

You can hold onto anything to make you carry on..

Take what you got and fly with it..

I want people to see how hard my husband and kids work on the ranch..

I've never been competitive with anybody but myself..

No one prepares you at 7 years of age to have your father tell you he is a criminal - you are still a kid and you are thinking about playing and havi….

I was always an actress, even as a little kid, and fantasy, horror, sci-fi stories are really all about playing make believe. I just never grew out o….

We need to teach our kids, because there is such a celebrity culture at the moment, that however rich you are, however famous you are, however glamor….

It's been nice, actually, to keep in touch with a lot of the people and families that I've written about. Like with the kids I was just writing about….

When I was a kid, I thought I was going to be an architect, because when I was 12 years old I had a guidance counselor that convinced me that that wa….

My rule was I wouldn't recruit a kid if he had grass in front of his house. That's not my world. My world has a cracked sidewalk..

As a kid I always wanted to be a centre-forward. I wanted the buzz and thrill of scoring goals from an early age..

My main intention is to inspire people. [Let] kids know that you experience things and it's okay to voice them and express yourself. Be an individual….

If we expect kids to be losers they will be losers; if we expect them to be winners they will be winners. They rise, or fall, to the level of the exp….

As a kid I was goofy and creative and sensitive. I like to think I'm all of those now too - just with wrinkles..