One of the things I haven't been ready for is how male-dominated the music industry is. I just didn't have a clue.

I'm a voice for children's books and children's reading.

Most scripts are bad. I read a lot of them.

I don't want to be thought of as somebody who's spiritually ambiguous, but the reality is there's unknown things happening. I'm not ready to point at what they are or what the reason is, but I know they exist.

Having boys is different. Boys, you put sneakers on, and they're out, they're ready. Girls, you gotta pay a little bit more attention to them.

Reading should be a pleasure, not a chore.

I remember being 12 or 13 and reading 'Seventeen' and 'CosmoGirl.' They were all about self-improvement.

What I have against M.B.A.s is the assumption that you come out of a two-year program probably never having been a manager - at least for full-time younger people M.B.A. programs - and assume you are ready to manage.

I have a healthy respect. The fact that I get ready for each opponent shows my respect.

If you dispute with me you will only quarrel with your bread and butter.

Of course I've been called everything; Wonder Wonder Woman, Wonder Bra, Wonder Bread.

When you launch a surgical operation, you must already be well deployed to follow it through with larger forces. That complicates matters: you need to be ready for a full-fledged campaign on the operational level and have the diplomatic backing lined up as well.

It's so important to be ready for whatever is going to be thrown at you.

Reading the several thousand pages of Christopher Isherwood's complete journals is an instructive corrective to the prissiness of reading fiction. Isherwood had faults that we'd say were unforgiveable in a novel (he was careful to distance himself from these in his autobiographical fiction).

I dread going to court.

When you finish reading a script and think it is good but have reservations about a kissing scene, it means that you haven't understood the script completely.

If I'm out there on the court, that means I'm ready to play.

There's some dudes that did Gangsta Grillz tapes who probably weren't worthy of it - their label just put up the bread, or they did a favor.

I was reading at a third-grade level until the age of 30 before I made the decision that I was going to learn how to read.

Then my uncle would give off the smell of freshly baked bread which I love.