Slowly and surely I started learning and eventually it got into my blood, and I just got devoted to it."

VOA: special.2009.08.19

And I tend to sit down and improvise. Within those improvisations certain motives and ideas will come about that I like."

VOA: special.2010.07.19

So I picked her up and I took her to the couch and I just started talking to her about what happened.

VOA: special.2009.12.11

"No,I didn't. I was in my last year and then, I got pregnant and I got lazy."

VOA: special.2010.05.13

"It helped teach me how to count and read. And I also loved how they integrated the human characters with the Muppet characters.

VOA: special.2009.11.27

"I mean,I travel all over the world and have dozens of people that I meet every month and I get business cards from them.

VOA: special.2009.09.14

I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contained, I stand and look at them long and long.

VOA: special.2009.04.12

And I read more than I went outside and played and made my mom mad."

VOA: special.2009.08.24

"And then I turn around and I see this little puppy dog looking up at me, wagging her tail,and uh, everything just left.I got calm.

VOA: special.2009.12.11

I played some old recordings, and my children and I danced around the room.

VOA: special.2009.05.03

"My whole life,I'm like, I'm Mexican and I'm really -- I'm a proud Mexican-American and I swear I was an Aztec princess in my past life.

VOA: special.2010.09.13

And I taught them history, I taught them literature. And,mythology was always one of my favorite subjects and one of my students' favorite subjects as well."

VOA: special.2009.10.12

when i wanted the roaches dead i wanted them dead and i killed them.

VOA: special.2010.04.18

When I count, there are only you and I together But when I look ahead up the white road There is always another walking beside you.

VOA: special.2010.02.24