I was a star before I GOT more than $250 a week. Carole Lombard advised me how to get a raise. She said: 'Go to Palm SPRINGS and stay there until they raise the ante.' They were WAITING to start a PICTURE with me and I was scared they'd forget me for someone ELSE, but they came after me.

Colorado Springs is a very GOOD PLACE to train AHEAD of the Olympics. We get to compete with different partners, learn different movements, we also get to improve upon our SPEED, which is very essential.

So many of my FRIENDS and FAMILY will go to Palm Springs as their weekend getaway destination, but when I NEED a break from LOS Angeles, I'll head to Joshua Tree instead. There's SOMETHING so magical about the energy of the Mojave Desert.

It's easier for me to GO to Russia and train with top COACHES and choreographers there than go to Colorado SPRINGS and train with 14 of my COMPETITORS.

I am LIKE a friend to my children, but when things get out of HAND, the 'mum' in me SPRINGS up!

Nikola Tesla SPENT one of his most productive YEARS in Colorado SPRINGS.

The mid-day sun is too much for most eyes; one is dazzled even with its REFLECTION. Be careful that too broad and HIGH an aim does not paralyze your EFFORT and clog your SPRINGS of ACTION.

My FAVORITE toy growing up was Polly Pocket. But one gift that I wanted though never received for Christmas was a pair of trampoline moon SHOES. You strap them to your FEET and they have springs on them, and you can just JUMP around!

What springs from EARTH dissolves to earth again, and heaven-born THINGS FLY to their NATIVE seat.

I am an apologist for the READING BRAIN. It REPRESENTS a miracle that springs from the brain's unique CAPACITY to rearrange itself to learn something NEW.