My philosophy, in a nutshell, is to wipe out the greatest amount of risk with the least amount of money.

I got my first job at a firm called Naess & Thomas.

I got my first job the old-fashioned way: I took an elevator to the top floor of many buildings and walked down floor by floor on the stairs going into every firm and asking the receptionist if she knew of any jobs available.

All American consumers have the same needs - to buy great consumer products, with savings and value, and with the convenience of easy delivery.

One of the hard things in my life has been balancing my education with my acting career, because I've been acting since the age of seven, on and off, just doing little parts and things. I've always been very keen to stay in school.

I got a crash-course education in urban fantasy. I suddenly had to look up all these other writers I was supposed to be in a genre with. I instantly had to become an expert in this genre I knew almost nothing about.

We do recognise the need to move towards the publication of information showing the progress made by pupils from one stage of their education to another.

When, in school, they were teaching algebra, I was studying differential equations at home.