There are so many distractions you can face as a woman, either with relationships or worrying about, Should I go to this party? or, Should I be doing this to help me get ahead? All [success] is, is doing your work and staying focused. It's boring advice, but boring good advice is what you can get from me!

I love telling press the designers I'm wearing, especially if they are emerging. That's exciting to me, supporting talented newcomers.

Twitter is so short, it's safe. I don't want my bosses to be like, 'Hey, your script is due and we saw you wrote four blog pages.'

It doesn't help for you to name a character's first name be Mindy and then be like, "I'm nothing like the character."

I would rather have someone read my diary than look at my iPod playlists.

Sometimes I eavesdrop on people. I could rationalize it - oh, this is good anthropological research for characters I'm writing - but it's basically just nosiness. It also helps me gauge where I'm at: Am I normal?

There is no sunrise so beautiful that it is worth waking me up to see it.