Campbell Brown Quotes

It's a fallacy that writers have to shut themselves up in their ivory towers to write. I have all these interruptions, three of which I gave birth to. If I was thrown for a loop every time I was distracted I could never get anything done.

Bringing my two children up while writing was just a part of life. I'd much rather have had their interruptions than been stuck in a sterile office. This way, I had welcome distractions. I had to load the washing machine, I had to go out and buy lemons.

At home, I'm lucky if I can write three or four hours before the phone starts ringing and the kids want to go to soccer.

People say to me, 'Oh, being a mother must make you a better actor,' and I think, 'Well, I never sleep, I have very little time to think about anything except when I'm actually there.' I wonder whether that makes me a better actor. I think it must on some level.

Being a mother, singer and actress is a definite juggling act, but I don't think I would be comfortable any other way.

I want to be playing music, and I want to be a great mom, and I want to do everything.

My biggest challenge every day is to be a great mother and a great businesswoman.

All I am is a writer and a mom.

I needed a writing space to get out of my house with the little guy. Because any time I try to write or sit down and do things, he wants to be there with me and play the guitar.

It's just easy to be a mother and an actress in the same time: you just have to have a good organization, and everything is just fine.

Naturally you want to be the best mom you can, but then also you want to be the best performer you can.

After a 15-year career in television news, sometimes spent biting my tongue in the name of objectivity and balance, I retired to raise our two small children.

Whatever career you are in, you always have other distractions.

I have no choice but to be 100-percent-focused. My two hours get blown up nearly every single day by breaking news.

Training for the Olympics was much easier than balancing my life now! When practice was over, there was time for me. But with four kids and a career, I have no downtime. When I'm not on the road, I finish my workday at 2:30 p.m. Then I pick the kids up from school and they get 100 percent Mommy, not part Mommy and part Mary Lou Retton.

I only read email early in the morning or in the evenings, which isn't perfect, but that's how I like it. I don't want to spend my day doing that.

I really believe that I've been a better parent from being a working mother.

Work is my top priority.

I think I was afraid of being a mother for many reasons. I wanted to be a good mom, and I was fearful at one point of even working at the national level because I was afraid that I would disappoint a child or I wouldn't be as ready for a big position as maybe I should have been when I came to Fox.

I definitely people-watch. I often see photos of myself with my children: I'm always in the background with my mouth wide open, looking somewhere else.

You want to be a good mother, and you want to be a good actress, and you want to be a good friend, and we expect this of us, to be all of this.

Juggling too many things can disturb the balance and throw your personal or professional life off track.

With kids and all the other activities around the house, I'm finding it harder to give my full attention to basketball.

I gave my all to my career and later to my marriage and motherhood.

I've been travelling, returning home for promotional appearances, and juggling it all with being the mother of a five-year-old.