Shortly thereafter, some friends encouraged me to try out for the Miss South Carolina World beauty pageant. To my surprise, I won - and was sent to New York City to compete nationally.

Although I'd first seen Senator Hart in Aspen, Colorado, at a New Year's Day party in 1987, we hadn't talked.

I was always an overachiever.

In my case, I learned that although God loves us, he doesn't grant us immunity from the consequences of our choices.

Returning to South Carolina meant getting a normal job in a normal town with normal people and marrying a normal person. I wanted the glamour and opportunity of the world.

After graduating in the summer of 1980, I knew I wanted my life to count.

Since it was too difficult to get into the Screen Actor's Guild in New York, I moved to Miami in 1982 and started a successful career as a television commercial actress, obtaining my SAG card there.

I've had to recover not only from a single well-publicized incident, but several years of press aftermath.

It was hard to turn down the money since I didn't have a job, but I didn't want to exploit my notoriety because I knew the way I'd been living was wrong.

At thirteen I began modeling, doing my first television commercial in ninth grade for Pizza Hut.

Before the group left, Gary asked for my phone number, and the next day he called to ask me to dinner that night. I had no idea he was married, but I found out that night.

The world is big in some ways, and so small in others.

But part of him wanted to say: Forget the world. He didn't want to be without her.

It's probably a bit of a power trip when you befriend somebody enough that they trust you to tell you things.

I don't work well outside the lines; my report card once read, "doesn't play well with others."

Each part of a great painting should in itself be a great painting.

Religion has nothing to do with compassion; it is our love for God that is the main thing because we have all been created for the sole purpose to love and be loved.

French fries kill more people than guns and sharks, yet nobody's afraid of French fries.

I want to find out more about how the Backstreet Boys get their incredible sound. I've got both their albums and I would love to cover one of their songs

I realized I really liked the screen. I knew it was a challenge, but I wasn't afraid of risk

People look up to Jacques Mesrine as if he were a Robin Hood, stealing from the rich, but he never gave anything back to anybody.