We are grateful to the Kenan Charitable Trust for setting the stage for the School of the Arts to be more competitive in attracting more student-artists of the first rank.

I'm not interested in being a candidate. I'm just doing other things now.

It's just part of the collection. So it's not of concern to us.

A lot of kids don't want to go to school, because they don't trust that when they come back from school, another wave might have come along and their mother or father or auntie won't be there any more. Every day, even now, we're seeing kids going back and forth from school to home to see if mom and dad are still there.

I've reinvented myself many times in my life. I thought I'd become a concert violinist but burned out at 17. I thought I'd go to law school but became Miss America.

I didn't win Class President in tenth grade. I was too chubby to win a role in the school play 'Oklahoma!' and I didn't make it into a singing and dancing group in high school for the same reason - too fat.