People don't understand the pressure on me to look perfect.

Remember, people only rain on your parade because they're jealous of your sun and tired of their shade.

If I don't like something that's going on in my life, I change it. And I don't sit and complain about it for a year.

I've made mistakes in my life for sure.

Embrace your curves and who you are. I feel proud if young girls look up to me and say, "I'm curvy, and I'm proud of it now".

I'm not trying to influence anyone else; I'm not saying, "Do what I do." I think it's a little pretentious to say, "I'm a role model"; I would never say that, and I don't think of myself that way.

I love when people underestimate me and then become pleasantly surprised.

It's time to recognise the Armenian Genocide.

Take and chance and don't ever look back. Never have regrets, just lessons learned.

I love the sun but don't have the time to get a good tan and keep it year-round, so I am a huge fan of tanning products.

I think I'll always be a hopeless romantic.

The writer is more concerned to know than to judge.

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Nothing forces us to know What we do not want to know Except pain

A wise soul once declared that the ultimate power of the writer is that he has the choice of whom he wants to be co-opted by.

(Greg) Maddux is a master. He carved us up. He didn't give us anything good to hit.

I think we're always most interested in the things we're doing right now.

I discovered that running actually gave me both physical and mental clarity. I love it.

I wonder what Adam and Eve think of it by this time.

You can get assent to almost any proposition so long as you are not going to do anything about it.

I get very nervous in un-trodden territory but it's important to keep doing it just to prove to myself that I can do it.