I was a tomboy growing up, and an athlete.

My husband's a man's man, and he does guy films, and there's rarely any female parts in them, period, but we have some projects that are for me that we hope to do in the near future.

There are people who went to prison, died, gave their life so Obama could be president of the United States.

My family was mostly unemployed working class.

Rottweilers are really protective. They always want to be around you, and they are really cuddly. They are good around family.

Mesh networking is an old idea. Oddly enough, the low-cost XO Laptop built by the 'One Laptop Per Child' organization - the so-called $100 laptop - was designed with built-in mesh networking. The idea with the XO machine was that many kids using those laptops would be out in rural areas without reliable Internet access.

I do not think direct experience is always necessary to act, but I believe that sometimes you have to have had the real experience to act certain roles. One of those was losing your family member. I was not being able to imagine how sad that could be.