“It doesn’t matter what anybody else thinks of your life. All that matters is what you think of it, and what you decide to make of it.”

In life, no two days are the same for me. It’s like a snowflake.

If happiness were easy, everybody would feel it all the time, and it wouldn’t seem like such an elusive prize.

I realized that there are no certainties in life. You can’t manipulate fate.

New York City is my playground.

All of us learn to write in the second grade. Most of us go on to greater things.

I’ve always been told I have a giant placenta.

I’m not overly focused on being loved by everybody.

I’m scared of the unknown future.

I didn’t binge when I was pregnant.

I don’t think it’s good to constantly talk about your own weight and the fact that you look fat in jeans.

I love pregnancy and the bump and the whole thing.

You have to work for everything. Marriage should not be any different.

Being with my family is my highest priority.

Exercise is like an old friend: You may not be able to see that friend all the time, but you’re not mad when you see them, you’re happy, and you get right back into it.

Food is not your best friend or enemy.

Depriving yourself will, ironically enough, lead to rebelling and weight gain.

I don’t think there’s anything that I would call essentially Brazilian in João Gilberto Noll work. In that regard, it translates very well to a cosmopolitan audience.

What do you think leads us to the windows in the first place?

Whether you end up convinced or not, you will never think about American national security the same way ever again.

I think I’m more intensely opinionated when I speak; more agreeably balanced when I write.

I think having the opportunity to get inside the skin of people that operate outside the law and normal moral and ethical restraints, and then to go home afterwards leaving them on set, is pretty cathartic.

There’s always way less improv than people think. The truth is something like 15 percent.

I am not one of those translators who think that working closely with the writer will yield the best translation.

You can keep on driving it but eventually you will ruin the engine.