a person with presence.

I know I'm a person who's been bugged for years about the up and down weight thing.

When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.

I'd be thinking about where the interview should go; she would be thinking about what she could do to sympathize [with a guest], to hug them and embrace the person and their problems.

Janie, to me, represents awareness of self and becoming a whole person, ... I used to be one of those women who was afraid of being full of herself. Because growing up, and even in elementary school, people would say, 'Oh, she thinks she's so full of herself.'

When you're the most successful person in your family, in your neighborhood, and in your town, everybody thinks you're the First National Bank, and you have to figure out for yourself where those boundaries are.