I think it is immensely difficult to get the U.S. interested in non-U.S. topics. I

don't think this is because the average American reader is disinterested, but more because of publishers playing it safe: if a thriller based in L.A. is a sure winner, why spend money plugging one based in Paris - or Bangkok? John Burdett

Glamorized... am I glamorous? Candice Bergen

Plus the public's attention span is so short right now, if a skater doesn't strike while the iron is hot... well it's not like people will forget you, but they just won't care anymore. Brian Boitano

I went through my first big breakup, with a boyfriend who I had been with for more than two years. He had been one of my dancers, and it was my first love and his. Christina Aguilera

If you have one good idea, people will lend you twenty. Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Know about the appeals process, especially in the case of the most serious crimes. Marilyn vos Savant

Equity feminism is a moral doctrine about equal treatment that makes no commitments regarding open empirical issues in psychology or biology. Steven Pinker

It's a luxury to not have to just be performing with other people to have my music heard. M. Ward

I'm OK with being the Old Spice Guy because before I was the Old Spice Guy I was the guy looking for work on his couch. Isaiah Mustafa