“Sometimes it was difficult to make friends and be social in school bec...” — Nancy Kerrigan Quote

Sometimes it was difficult to make friends and be social in school because I was always practicing while other kids were getting together and doing things. But it just made me closer to my family, and I realized that they would always be there no matter what.

I like to try all kinds of styles so it always challenges me and forces me to try to look different.

It wasn't always easy getting up at 5 o'clock in the morning to go to the rink. Sometimes I wanted to just go back to sleep.

I took group lessons at a rink near my home. We first had to learn how to stand up on the ice wearing skates. Eventually we learned to move forward, but soon found out that it was not that easy to stop! So that was our next important lesson.

And I was very, very much influenced by the films of Jean Cocteau and by Sartre and everything that came out of France because it was closer than America or England.

Perhaps women have always been in closer contact with reality than men: it would seem to be the just recompense for being deprived of idealism.

Writing a graphic novel is hard. It feels closer to a screen play than to a novel.

Governor Palin leans far closer to 'spokesperson' than representative of the people.

The closer you get to people who are different than you, the more you learn that we're all same.