It’s tough now to meet a girl who wants to hang out with you because she likes your personality – who hasn’t seen you on TV and is like, ‘Hey!’ – Shaun White
Mom is the most unconditionally loving person I will ever know, and she has always supported me on every level. – Rashida Jones
Anyone watching ’30 Rock’ always knew Tina Fey was playing a fictionalized version of herself, a workaholic comedy writer who also plays one on TV. She’s the boss; Liz Lemon just works here. – Rob Sheffield
My mother was a Swede who grew up in Denmark. When I go there, I visit the street where she grew up and look at her house, which is still there, and the snowberry bush, from which she ate some berries and had to have her stomach pumped. – Ruth Rendell
No agent wants to see a book until he or she has decided whether to pursue the relationship. – Sara Paretsky
I was born five days before D-Day in 1944. My father was a mechanical engineer, which was a reserved occupation, so he didn’t have to enlist. My mother was a housewife. She worked in a bank before marrying my father. – Robert Powell
My mum will not speak above a low whisper in public because she doesn’t want to draw attention to herself. – Richard C. Armitage
If Pocahontas had been given the foresight to see what devastating consequences her actions and belief in the possibility of peace would have brought upon her people, I wonder if she would have avoided befriending the English or not. – Q’orianka Kilcher
Every mother is like Moses. She does not enter the promised land. She prepares a world she will not see. – Pope Paul VI
One of the things I give Nancy Pelosi a lot of credit for is that she’s able to get things passed and hold her members together because she shows us that she’s doing everything possible to get our views into these bills. – Peter Welch
I’m fascinated by the way Diane Arbus saw things. She came from this fashion background and then twisted it. – Raf Simons
I’m not a great lover of Madonna’s voice. She’s done very well with what she’s got, and I’m sure my voice turns her right off, but she’s not my favourite singer. – Rod Stewart
I’m the antidote to Lindsay Lohan. I know she misbehaves terribly, but sometimes it just seems like it’s open season on her. – Raquel Welch
Do you believe in Madonna? Because Lady Gaga has got something to say about ‘Express Yourself,’ and she’s turned Madonna’s fourth-best single of 1989 into her own instant-classic club anthem, ‘Born This Way.’ – Rob Sheffield
Just because the character listens to an iPod and wears black nail polish, she’s goth. That was just a misused word. – Rooney Mara
You, I, we all encounter behaviors that we might say, I wouldn’t do that. But she has a huge amount of contact with how people live. She sees more hospices and sink estates than most people. – Prince Andrew
I had one fight in my adult life. I had the famous ’89 fight with Nicole, which she admits that she initiated the physical part. – O. J. Simpson
Jodi Melnick is hotly self-absorbed. Her onstage musicians are much too loud, and like so many narcissistic performers, she goes on much too long: She’s interested in herself; why wouldn’t we be? – Robert Gottlieb
My mum was a quintessential businesswoman. She taught me problem-solving. She can solve any problem. – Obiageli Ezekwesili
Olivia Newton-John was our first choice to play Sandy, but she was nervous about acting, whether she would feel comfortable with us and could pull it off at all. – Randal Kleiser
The true mystic is always both humble and compassionate, for she knows that she does not know. – Richard Rohr
I loved making ‘Rising Sun’. I got into the psychology of why she liked to get strangled and tied up in plastic bags. It has to do with low self-worth. – Tatjana Patitz
Though designed as a mere convenience, clothing sizes establish an unintended norm, an ideal from which deviations seem like flaws. There’s nothing like a trip to the dressing room to convince a woman – fat, thin, or in between – that she’s a freak. – Virginia Postrel