Quotes About Celebration

As far as the creative side, the more I do this, the more I know that it's all about the writing. We don't always celebrate that enough, but without the writing, you can't do much. You got on a film sometimes, and it's sort of half-written, and they expect and think that the actor's job is to bring the extra part and the good part. It's not.

I work out for a few hours extra, but I can't give cakes and chocolates a miss on Christmas.

People wear extraordinarily bright colours in India.

It was extraordinary to experience 'Mamma Mia!' What an injection of good spirit and heart it was.

I've only dealt with fabulous brides!

In 20 years, I'm going to - I'm sure - envy the body that I have now. I look fabulous and it's important to celebrate.

Celebrate creativity and confidence in the face of adversity.

The difference between art about death and actual death is that one's a celebration and the other's a dull fact.

I think there's a lot of factors that go into the whole awards thing. I've never been that big a fan of it.

If you can make it as a children's party fairy, you can make it anywhere.

One of the reasons we set up this country, one of the things we celebrate in freedom and democracy of the United States is you can criticize your president. You can criticize the ways in which the country falls short of its values.

We play Amazing Race on New Year's Eve. My mom or aunt makes a whole list of things that we have to find, and we split up into teams. Sometimes it's like a Chinese takeout menu or take a picture with a cop, so on New Year's Eve we're running around all over the place going into restaurants and different things.

The draft is one of my favorite events because it is about football. People are focused on how their teams improve. It's a celebration of football. And most importantly, it represents a very important time in the lives of these men who are entering the NFL, and their families.

At Rackspace, I'm building a media house which will celebrate small teams who are having world-wide impacts through their building or use of new technology.

We looked at each other standing on the podium, and I think we all were tearing up. But we had to keep it cool. I think we did. Then we let out a breath.

It truly feels like all my blood, sweat, and tears have paid off, and you're just excited to be a woman because you're getting just as much time as the men, and you're getting the recognition.

When I first found out that I was an Idol finalist, I cried tears of happiness. I was just so happy, and my family was there and the fact that got to see that moment and share that moment with me was just everything to me.

You know what happens if I walk out on the stage in Montreal? They stand up and they cheer for three or four minutes. It just brings tears to your eyes, because it's a love affair.

I tease sometimes and say that the King holiday is a 20th-century miracle. Reagan even signed it, and he was completely opposed to the idea.

When I was growing up, there was no one. There were very few black women in tech; there were very few black women in the fashion game. We didn't have our Grace Jones - Grace Jones was before my time. We didn't really have a lot of black women in electronic and punk who were celebrated in the same levels as, say, your big mega-superstars.

All music is dance music. But when people think of dance music, they think of techno or just house. Anything you can dance to is dance music. I don't care if it's classical, funk, salsa, reggae, calypso; it's all dance music.

I think that we live in techno-enthusiastic times. We celebrate our technologies because people are frightened by the world we've made.

'I Think We're Alone Now' just makes people feel good. It became a teen anthem twice. How cool is that?

I was delighted when Booktrust asked me to be chair of judges for the Booktrust Teenage Prize 2010.