"Contentment comes from wanting what we need, not needing what we want."

“Now North Korea certainly is located in a different place geographically, but I think it faces the same type of strategic decision. Does it want a different future for its people?”

“With my sport, I am outside and in the water, which can be really drying and damaging to the skin, so I try to be vigilant about taking good care of it.”

Source : "What’s in Amanda Beard’s Gym Bag?". Interview with Leslie Goldman, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 19, 2011.

“The religion of one age is the literary entertainment of the next.”

“'Sex and The City' was made to correct the myth that if you were single at a certain age, you were a leper. Its four characters are heroes to a lot of women; they run around New York, or Gotham - but they have fancy shoes instead of capes.”

“I've been married to the same man for all this time. The way we fight sometimes, you can tell.”

“Girls' is a huge show, as far as buzz, and magazine covers, and getting a ton of copy, and awards. And yet I don't think the viewership is huge.”

“I came from a state where 35 percent self-identify as Tea Partiers, so I'm a bit distorted perhaps in my appreciation for the larger American population.”

“To do a drawing for a painting most often means doing something very sketchy and schematic and then later making it polished.”