Quotes About Discovery

I've got one outlet now - music - and it's great to be able to sign someone that excites me. I'd like to also be able to do that with the scripts I get or books or TV shows... I'm not going to limit myself.

The movies and TV shows I like to watch tend to put their characters in situations where they have to dig deeper.

Part of the fun is finding out how elastic that box is and, you know, test the limits of what TV shows can do or what a music video can do.

As far as TV shows are concerned, I would love to do a travel show.

Mark Twain's Roughing It is a book that many people don't know about, but I highly recommend to anybody at any age.

If somebody crafts an interesting tweet that'll lead me to their blog, I'm going to their blog.

My favorite thing to do in a new city is find new fast food. I seek it out. I'll tweet and ask people what their favorite local place is, and if I get four or five with the same answer, then I'll check it out.

There was this song I was working on called 'Swing.' It was almost finished, but there was something missing, and I couldn't for the life of me figure it out. And then this little piece of information - this little tweet - came to the forefront of my mind.

I had been writing for about twelve years. I knew pretty well how you could find things out, but I had never been trained in an academic way how to go about the research.

Although I always loved reading and putting words on paper, I never thought about becoming a writer until I was twelve.

I loved everything about being ten, eleven, and twelve years old, and seem to make most of my heroines and heroes that age so I can reexperience all those pitfalls and wonderful discoveries. It helps me to figure out my own life when I write from that eleven year old place!

Back in your twenties you're discovering your boundaries in life, whether it's with relationships or friendships and partying.

I spent my late twenties and all of my thirties figuring out what I was supposed to be doing and where my home was.

I was a bit of a lost lamb in my twenties, trying to find my higher calling.

Being a single girl in New York... it's what you should be doing in your twenties!

My twenties were the worst period of my life.

My twenties were a write-off.

I didn't see any Broadway till I was in my late twenties.

I was a cover artist for years. I didn't start writing songs until I was in my mid-twenties. I wrote them with John Leventhal, and they were pretty bad. I was in my late twenties when I wrote the first song with him that made any sense to me about what I was rooted in and what spoke for me as an artist. That was 'Diamond in the Rough.'

Because I think your twenties are really difficult, aren't they?

Being in your twenties and trying to figure out who you are and what you want to do in life - with or without cancer - is a scary endeavor on its own.

It wasn't until entering my twenties that I began to identify my real dream as an actress.

It has become part of the accepted wisdom to say that the twentieth century was the century of physics and the twenty-first century will be the century of biology.

The great problems of the Twentieth century will have immediate relation to the discoveries of America, of Africa, and of Australia.