[I spend a] lot [time travelling]. Between the restaurants, filming for TV, producing MasterChef, seeing the kids. . . it's pretty constant.
Nowadays a gold medal is a $1 million contract. Our athletes are our heroes.
In high school I never went to the prom because I was too consumed with gymnastics. Also, with my hair in pigtails and looking about 10, I wasn't exactly date material.
There's so much denial in gymnastics. It's a beautiful sport but the other part is numbing. You become machinelike. They'll refute this, but I've been around it. I know.
I would climb on roofs and jump off using my parents' bed sheet, hoping it would open like a parachute. I was always getting hurt, breaking a leg, you know, bruising, cracking my head open.
Seeing the show is like a visit to the fountain of youth for parents and the children.
It's that athlete's obsessiveness - the need to prove yourself and work harder than anybody else. I think it's what helped me do well in the theater.
A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way in which a piece of wax takes on the impress of a signet-ring without the iron or gold.
Increased means and increased leisure are the two civilizers of man.
In every woman's wardrobe, there are certain accessories that cannot be separated from their back stories.
The big change, the really radical change in communication, was in the late 19th century. The shift from sailing ships to telegraph is astronomical. Everything since then has been small increments, including the internet.