Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.

What I loved about 'Summer' was that they were these four bright kids with a wonderful future. In a way, she was the one with the brains, and then you have the beauty queen and the jock and the introvert.

I didn't do anything at the Queen, whom I admire.

And so The Snow Queen also became a story about the need to seek equilibrium, in our own lives, with the natural world, even within the universe at large.

As for the historical inspirations I drew on in writing The Snow Queen, I suppose I would call them more cross-cultural inspirations, though they frequently involve past societies as well as present day ones.

The futures and ultimate fates of the characters in The Snow Queen are profoundly changed by choices made in their own minds or hearts, as well as choices unexpectedly forced on them by things beyond their control.

The Queen is most anxious to enlist everyone in checking this mad, wicked folly of 'Women's Rights'. It is a subject which makes the Queen so furious that she cannot contain herself.

Although a madman, Norton wrote letters to Abraham Lincoln and Queen Victoria which they took seriously.

A beautiful woman can be painted as a totem only; not as a woman, but as a Madonna, a queen, a sphinx.

I had a Christian upbringing - it was all about sin and guilt. I was very happy just kissing people. I was like the make-out queen - not even second base.

To be a queen of a household is a powerful thing.

I met the Queen, the Pope, and we went all over Europe and Asia. I just wish I was older when I did all this. Then I could appreciate it more.

Do you really have to be the ice queen intellectual or the slut whore? Isn't there some way to be both?

There's four biggies. There was Elizabeth I, George III, Victoria, and the current queen, who really dominated four eras.

I'll take being on Baywatch over being Prom Queen any day.