I try to do the right thing at the right time. They may just be little things but usually they make the difference between winning and losing.

I have made this letter longer than usual only because I have not had the time to make it shorter.

As time goes on we get closer to that American Dream of there being a pie cut up and shared. Usually greed and selfishness prevent that and there is always one bad apple in every barrel.

I think I am too old to be doing teen movies. I am just kind of annoyed because you have all these teen movies coming out with usually either Lindsay Lohan or Hilary Duff doing four of the exact teen movies over and over again.

Friendships in childhood are usually a matter of chance whereas in adolescence they are most often a matter of choice.

I loved almost everything about being a teacher but I was an unusual teacher.

It is not easy to imagine how little interested a scientist usually is in the work of any other with the possible exception of the teacher who backs him or the student who honors him.

A self-taught man usually has a poor teacher and a worse student.

When I meet successful people I ask 100 questions as to what they attribute their success to. It is usually the same: persistence hard work and hiring good people.

The ladder of success in Hollywood is usually a press agent actor director producer leading man and you are a star if you sleep with each of them in that order. Crude but true.

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

Usually I write about what I care about which is a weakness but I think also a strength.

I was always trying to make up for my size to compensate. So to get people to take you seriously you have to come at things with a great deal of strength. You have to emphasize that the way you are is unusual. That you don't come along every day.

I'll do strength training in my dressing room between shoots and I've been known to make business calls while out jogging. I try to mute myself on Bluetooth so they can't hear me huffing and puffing but I usually end up getting caught.

People think of Latina women as being fiery and fierce which is usually true. But I think the quality that so many Latinas possess is strength. I'm very proud to have Latin blood.

The only consistent hobby I've had is studying Spanish and French because of some delusion of grandeur to work around the world. I love sports but usually I'm looking for the next job.

I worked at my high school newspaper at Andover which came out weekly unusual for a high school paper. Then my first day at Penn I went right to the 'Daily Pennsylvanian' and pretty much spent most of my college career working both as the sports editor and then editor of the editorial page.

The sports page records people's accomplishments the front page usually records nothing but man's failures.

Breaking records is not something you expect to be doing. That's like a sports thing it's not usually a comedy and writing thing.

What is called good society is usually nothing but a mosaic of polished caricatures.

Usually terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all but just terrible things.

Usually if you smile at them and show some interest in the toy they will give it to you. That's a straight up Democrat move!

My fiction is reviewed by the mainstream press by science fiction periodicals romance magazines small press publications and various other journals including some usually devoted to archaeological and other science material.

Usually girls weren't encouraged to go to college and major in math and science. My high school calculus teacher Ms. Paz Jensen made math appealing and motivated me to continue studying it in college.