Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way.
Before turning pro, I would never have just left my skates sitting in the locker room unattended.
In terms of my career, having the gold definitely changed my life. The Olympics are different, you know? They're every four years and it's such a small group.
Figure skaters have awful perceptions of hockey players.
One of my mottos not only just in skating but in life in general and I try to enforce it as well, is like no regrets and just like going for it.
Winning in women's singles felt surreal. I felt that everything I had done - the hard work, the tough times - was all worth it.
I didn't want to skate for someone else or for certain marks.
I only really watch sport. That's where you see real joy. I don't like watching much else on TV, because it's generally either twisted or sad.
The desire to work with Burrows-Charles was really to change NBC's identity, to say, "We want to be in the sophisticated-adult-comedy business. "
The truth is, laughter always sounds more perfect than weeping. Laughter flows in a violent riff and is effortlessly melodic. Weeping is often fought, choked, half strangled, or surrendered to with humiliation.
When I was a kid, phone calls were a premium commodity; only the very coolest kids had a phone line of their own, and long-distance phone calls were made after eleven, when the rates went down, unless you were flamboyant with your spending. Then phone calls became as cheap as dirt and as constant as rain, and I was on the phone all the time.