Oprah is just this goddess presiding over so much of American life, and her story is really interesting – the way she made herself, and the ruthlessness it took, and also the fantasizing that it took. – George Packer
I have a treadmill, and I work out with my trainer, Julie Diamond, as often as possible. She’s so positive. – Emily Deschanel
In 1964, at the age of 39, Flannery O’Connor died from complications of lupus. She had lived with this autoimmune disease for 14 years, primarily confined to her mother’s farm, Andalusia, in Milledgeville, Ga. – Floyd Skloot
I think Cate Blanchett is fabulous – she just shines in everything she does – and I’m a big Susan Sarandon fan. – Malin Akerman
Jessica Lange is a sweetheart, the nicest lady in the world. She has a Poodle named Jack. – Evan Peters
I loved playing Go Go, because the character’s so extreme. And she’s pretty close to my real character. Especially the fact that she liked her sword with a lot of accessories. – Chiaki Kuriyama
I have a wonderful assistant. I tell her I need four amputees and a midget, and she finds them. – Nikki Sixx
My mother was English. My parents met in Oxford in the ’50s, and my mother moved to Nigeria and lived there. She was five foot two, very feisty and very English. – Chris Abani
I met Hillary Clinton when I was a young lady working as an intern, and I can tell you she’s been a progressive fighter all her life. And Bernie Sanders, I got to know him during campaigns on Capitol Hill, campaigns across this country. These are two wonderful, fighting souls. – Donna Brazile
The commitments, schedule and sponsor appearances don’t change. It gets more busy, because you get more popular, and the more popular you are, it actually gets more busy. They’re like, ‘Yeah, let’s use her, she’s hot right now. Let’s do a shoot!’ – Danica Patrick
A women knows how to keep quiet when she is in the right, whereas a man, when he is in the right, will keep on talking. – Malcolm de Chazal
This season is a lot funnier, not as dark, mainly because, well, she has accepted the fact that she is dead. She knows she cannot go back to where she was when she was alive. – Ellen Muth
I was married for 18 years to a woman who wanted me to get sober for all 18 years and I never did. She finally came to her senses and divorced me. – Danny Bonaduce
Marriage, in its truest sense, is a partnership of equals, with neither exercising dominion over the other, but, rather, with each encouraging and assisting the other in whatever responsibilities and aspirations he or she might have. – Gordon B. Hinckley
I’m channelling my 14-year-old self. She’s thinking about putting on her big hoop earrings and baggy pants and going to the mall downtown. – Nelly Furtado
When I’m directing actors, I often find myself slipping in sports metaphors, like: ‘Don’t go for the punch line here, just put it up on a T-ball stand so she can hit it out of the park.’ – Mark Waters
Kate Moss is small and not necessarily model dimensions but she has that special something. – Nigel Barker
I couldn’t really relate much to my younger sister, because she was born in 1992, and I was born in 1986. And then my older sister, we just didn’t get on that much. Although we bonded over hating our stepdad. – Ellie Goulding
Julie Christie, I used to hang out with her. She was friends with Richard Pryor and Warren Beatty and all of them. There was a club in Beverly Hills called the Candy Store, a private club. I used to hang out with them all. – Paul Mooney
I think one of the funniest things about ’30 Rock’ is that Liz Lemon is sort of like Buster Keaton – she’s always the fool, the joke is always on her. – Cristin Milioti
If I could do what Hilary Mantel does, I would probably do that. She is more intelligent and a better researcher and knows more what she’s about than I do. – Garth Risk Hallberg
I write longhand; I make changes longhand, and I have an assistant who types it up. She lives 70 yards away. Every afternoon, I have a case I leave out on the porch, and she brings it back the next morning. – Donald Hall
