My first novel, ‘Compromising Positions,’ was a whodunit. The protagonist was a Long Island Jewish housewife who turns private investigator. But she was Jewish the way I was: lighting Sabbath candles but envying her Protestant and Catholic friends’ December decorating options. – Susan Isaacs
We’re going to do a natural birth. At first she was like, ‘We should do it at home,’ and I said, ‘Look, either way, when you go into labor, I will be checking into a hospital… so if you want to come along, come along. – Simon Helberg
I’m trying to make the readers feel as if he or she is right there in the conversation, and so I don’t try to manipulate it too much. – Susan Straight
I’ve just built a studio in my mama’s old bedroom, which I thought was fitting; she died last year. We’ve recorded nine songs recorded in there already; we’re sort of just chipping away. – Stephen Stills
Selam is our most complete skeleton of a three-year-old girl who lived and died 3.3 million years ago. She belongs to the species known as Australopithecus afarensis. – Zeresenay Alemseged
My sister and I are opposites in many ways. She is six feet tall, while I’m five feet four. – Tracy Austin
And besides, because of all she has accomplished, Barbara Jordan has always been a hero of mine. – Tom Selleck
An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren’t. – Sacha Guitry
I’m into everything. My iPod is very eclectic – if you kept it on shuffle, you’d be amazed. For example, I was forced to grow up on Dolly Parton. My mum was obsessed by her. She bought all this memorabilia for the front room. It’s ridiculous. – Tinie Tempah
Madea is a cross between my mother and my aunt. She’s the type of grandmother that was on every corner when I was growing up. – Tyler Perry
If you make a treaty first with the United States and settle the matter of the opium trade, England cannot change this, though she should desire to do so. – Townsend Harris
My mom used to get arrested for being with my dad. She would get fined. She would spend weekends in jail. – Trevor Noah
Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings. – Victor Hugo
She doesn’t do the things heroines are supposed to. Which is rather Jane Austen’s point – Fanny is her subversive heroine. She is gentle and self-doubting and utterly feminine; and given the right circumstances, she would defy an army. – Susanna Clarke
I have a toy poodle, Shadow. She’s a little whippersnapper! And I love little monkeys. – Vanessa Hudgens
My mother was the first singer I had contact with. She sang constantly to us around the house, in church. – Whitney Houston
Daryl Hannah likes to goof around with fashion, but she does have pretty impeccable taste. – Val Kilmer
This is going to sound a bit weird because she’s a lot older than I am, but I’ve got a thing for Meryl Streep. – Taron Egerton
Sarah is very strong. She’s really intelligent and she’s very physically capable. I like to put that into my own life as well. – Yvonne Strahovski
There is one thing I would break up over, and that is if she caught me with another woman. I won’t stand for that. – Steve Martin
I taught Sandra Bullock when no one knew who she was. I talked her out of quitting. I put her in a showcase. – Sally Kirkland
My wife is amazing. She had to know she was getting into a heap of trouble when we met. – Taylor Hanson
When I was little, my mom tells me, I used to say things like, ‘Mom do you hear the string section? Do you hear the string section?’ And she would look at me and say, ‘No honey, I don’t know what you’re talking about.’ – Tori Amos
Perhaps it’s time to stop analyzing Sarah Palin as a politician. Maybe, in her own muddled way, she is at last owning up to the fact that she has been miscast. You don’t need politics anymore once you’ve discovered that the alchemy of celebrity has turned you into a 24-carat phenomenon. – Tina Brown