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When I was a child, my geography teac... GINA BELLMAN I spent 12 years of my life, the last six years training six to eight hours a day, every day of my l... CAITLYN JENNER I'm grateful for every day I'm still alive. Everything is still working. I attribute it to e... JOAN RIVERS By exercise. I'll tell you one thing, you don't always have to be on the go. I sit around a ... JACK LALANNE I do adore food. If I have any vice it's eating. If I was told I could only eat one food for the res... COLIN BAKER I'd rather play a double-header than speak at a banquet, and if I went to Wrigley Field knowing ... RYNE SANDBERG Oh my gosh. I had to work out six days a week, two and a half hours a day. I was on a South Beach di... JESSICA SIMPSON I had only two jobs my entire life Taco Bell for six months and Kroger's Food store for one day! DANTE HALL If someone had told me in high school that one day I'd write an historical novel, I would have r... NANCY HORAN What we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do. There are people we trust b... STEPHEN R. COVEY When I learned that flour pound for pound has as many calories as sugar, and that when eating pasta ... CAITLIN MORAN I believe that one version of the good in life can be defined by the moments I sometimes had playing... ATUL GAWANDE I had started law school at Florida State University as a part-timer. I would go two quarters, and t... TONY LA RUSSA I wasn't eating the right kinds of calories. I didn't know about healthy carbs such as brown... ALISON SWEENEY When I was able to go to school in my early years, my third grade teacher, Ms. Harris, convinced me ... JOHN HENRIK CLARKE I used to dream about Gorbachev before he lost power. I'd go into a panic because I was meeting ... HUGH GRANT The way I pack is I look at how long I'll be gone and I pack day for day. If I'm going on a ... JACK NICKLAUS I still indulge in a glass of wine or chocolate - treats are mandatory. Without deviating from the d... ALANIS MORISSETTE I have said with as much sincerity as I can muster that if I were thrown into a dungeon with a sente... EDWARD P. JONES I was really into '24' at university, and it resulted in a lot of lost hours that could have... EMILY BERRINGTON I've always wanted to sing, just as I've always known that one day I would have my own niche... EDITH PIAF I do 45 minutes of cardio five days a week, because I like to eat. I also try for 45 minutes of musc... GWYNETH PALTROW I really wanted to be as healthy as I could. It wasn't about getting my six-pack back. There are... MARISA MILLER Modelling was not very satisfying for me. I came to London to model, and I fell in love with the the... CATERINA MURINO My mother practiced hours every day, hours as painful to hear as to play. At first everybody thought... HELEN DEWITT I'm not one who can get by on six hours sleep night after night. You can see it on my face and h... ANNA KENDRICK Hunger is a deep concern of mine, and I feel that no one should go without food in this world as lon... NICK CANNON I concentrate on making everything strong, and you can't do that with just cardio. I strength-tr... JESSICA BIEL I started playing soccer at age 6 and played both outfield and goalie. Back then, no one wanted to g... TIM HOWARD I drop my kid off at school and then race home, and it's a very limited time. I can only do real... MARIA SEMPLE If your body needs certain food, you have to give it to it. And as an athlete, if I'm doing 100 ... MO FARAH Let me tell you, if I could write one-tenth as fast as some of my friends, I'd be made. I'd ... JUNOT DIAZ If someone said, 'You've got to eat your next two meals at American fast-food restaurants,... DANNY MEYER If I can, I love staying in pajamas all day and watching movies and eating good food. BECKY G One of the very few things that I do every single day is put on fragrance. If I'm not wearing ma... BLAKE LIVELY My eighth-grade year, I was home-schooled. I'd basically wake up, go to the gym in the morning, ... JACOB DALTON My mother would work 14 hours, and she'd come home, and she'd just get right into cooking...... MICHELLE PHAN It's easier to lose weight eating five or six times a day. It's proven your body can better metaboli... HAYLEY WEISE I was always a believer in stamping on my opponent if I got him down, at Wimbledon or anywhere else.... FRED PERRY I didn't feel as if they always had me [as] part of their plans. It was like I was back on the back ... JUAN DIXON At one time, I had an office on Music Row, but we moved to a small farm and I just like being here, ... ALLEN SHAMBLIN I keep my beauty regimen as natural as possible. I wash my face four times a day. In the beginning o... TENA DESAE Even as a little girl, my mom never wanted me to watch BET, but when I was at my grandparents' h... WINNIE HARLOW As far as I'm concerned, I own my dogs as I own my body. My legs are with me when I take a showe... ELIZABETH MARSHALL THOMAS I don't eat out much. I eat mostly home food and no carbs after 5 P.M. You are what you eat, and... TIGER SHROFF I'd look at one of my stonecutters hammering away at the rock, perhaps a hundred times without a... JACOB RIIS I can act normally, and I can go out, but people around you don't act normally. If it was normal... CHERYL COLE So It's not like I go from being this disciplined person who has to get up and go to work to now... ERIQ LA SALLE We've all been told at one point in our lives that we should avoid eating meals late at night as it ... JUDY CAMERON It's not as if I can just pop on my show and be rude if I've had a hard day. NEIL CAVUTO I stopped dieting on plain, boring, unsatisfying food and started eating rich, delicious meals full ... SUZANNE SOMERS As a little girl growing up in Southside Jamaica Queens, if anyone would've told me I'd have... NICKI MINAJ Every day I'd come home after school, pop the hood of my mom's car, put alligator clips on t... RYAN HOLMES I wasn't eating. I wasn't sleeping. All I was doing was cocaine. I stayed awake for about two weeks,... ANDY GIBB If I could do one thing over again I would try not to let my nerves get to me like they did. Not as ... CARLEY BEAUDREAU My philosophy from day one is that I can sleep better at night if I can improve an individual's ... EMERIL LAGASSE To be intimate with a married man, when my own father cheated on my mother, is not something I could... ANGELINA JOLIE I had people in my life who didn't give up on me: my mother, my aunt, my science teacher. I had ... TEMPLE GRANDIN I used to 'glut,' as in eating too much that it made me sick. After I realized how much weight I was... MATTHEW WRIGHT I looked back at the years since I'd left college and thought of the list of things I'd have... SIMON TOYNE I love food. I'm a huge food addict. I think in my past life I was a pig or something like that,... JUSTIN LEE I'm a fat kid on the inside. I love food so much, and I fluctuate about 25 to 30 pounds between ... CHANNING TATUM If I eat mindlessly while watching television, reading, or talking with someone else, I can go throu... DEAN ORNISH An athlete with disordered eating doesn't see food as fuel that helps build her body but as calories... LISA DORFMAN I'd go to, like, six different schools in one year. We were on welfare, and my mom never ever wo... EMINEM By the third day of eating all raw, I found I had solved the riddle to my health. DAVID KLEIN On my best day, I am a seven-point-seven. I could be a hard eight if I felt great. If I went on a go... JULIA ROBERTS I get up at 7:30 and work four hours a day. Nine to twelve in the morning, five to six in the evenin... KURT VONNEGUT I'm doing four hours of gymnastics training a day, six days a week and then an extra two to thre... SHAWN JOHNSON I wish we could go to the movies." I stared at him. "We're in a creepy dungeon. There's a chanc... RACHEL HAWKINS It distresses me when I take my seven-year-old nephew out. I cook healthy food, and he wants to go t... JULIA SAWALHA My granddad was a hard worker, and my dad is, too. It was instilled in me as a kid. I never got pock... OLLY MURS Well, it's very easy for me to gain weight, but even though I tried not eating for a week when I... AMANDA SEYFRIED My dad was a really good surfer, and by the time I was 10, he was dragging me out on some good days ... XAVIER RUDD It seems everyone wants to know if I have an eating disorder, and playing an anorexic character on &... ALICE GRECZYN I still work out most days. When I do it, I go full blast five or six days a week, two to three hour... MICKEY ROURKE For the last few years I've tried to force myself to write at least one page every day, which do... DAN CHAON Every day I reassessed my life. The job was hard. One day I dug an entire sewer main by hand in six-... AKIM MILLINGTON In my downtime, I love eating. It's pretty much my favorite hobby. Discovering new restaurants a... CHRISTIE LAING Time had not faded my memories (as I had prayed to God it might), nor had it healed my wounds as it ... ORHAN PAMUK For five months I got up at six o'clock and got dressed by the lamplight. The fire would not yet be ... LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERY One of the things I do to stay healthy and fit is to make sure I exercise every single day. Aside fr... MARTHA STEWART I couldn't finish the sandwich, and I wanted to do something about it. We all felt bad about not eat... ANDY NEARY
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TAYLOR NEGRON I was a top-notch cartoon model for Hanna Barbera, and they made me into a cartoon series called ... TAYLOR NEGRON I'm savoring being in California every minute, learning that traffic is just God's way of sa... TAYLOR NEGRON My creativity all comes from the same place. I wear one very comfortable, large hat. TAYLOR NEGRON My mom and dad are New Yorkers who left the tenement streets of the Bronx and came to Los Angeles wh... TAYLOR NEGRON These days, many people are unwilling to see their dog as an animal. Let's face it: they are cut... TAYLOR NEGRON For a long time, I lived in West Hollywood and watched young gay men strolling through life having n... TAYLOR NEGRON Before I paint someone, I always ask, 'How much examination can your body take?' 'How mu... TAYLOR NEGRON To make money, I did portraits . The truth is so bizarre! I'm kind of embarrassed. I was like a ... TAYLOR NEGRON I've always loved silent movies. I recently saw 'Tilly's Punctured Romance' at the A... TAYLOR NEGRON I think people are obsessed with their pets because pets don't speak. It's that simple. Afte... TAYLOR NEGRON I remember when the palm trees were short and Tomorrowland was modern. TAYLOR NEGRON I do think Jesus would skip church on Sunday morning and instead visit the nursing homes and retirem... TAYLOR NEGRON The poem 'What Teachers Make' is not without its detractors. This one person wrote to me and... TAYLOR MALI I grew up writing thank-you notes. Real, honest-to-goodness, pen-and-ink, stamped and posted letters... TAYLOR MALI One of the most important things that teachers teach students is you, you can work harder. You are m... TAYLOR MALI The best teachers that I had were always the ones I never wanted to disappoint. TAYLOR MALI When students have thanked me in the past for being their teacher, I have always felt that it was ac... TAYLOR MALI Teachers today are breaking down obstacles, finding innovative ways to instill old lessons, proving ... TAYLOR MALI If you've ever been to a poetry slam, you know that the highest scoring emotion is self-righteou... TAYLOR MALI When I'm not acting, I try to be normal, play golf, play hockey. It's funny because you'... TAYLOR KITSCH I would do 'John Carter' again tomorrow. I'm very proud of 'John Carter.' Box of... TAYLOR KITSCH I admire an actor that can do a lot with doing nothing really, for the most part. I like doing a lot... TAYLOR KITSCH Put paying your dues and all that puts so much into being a success. You have an understanding of wh... TAYLOR KITSCH I have like 20 snap-up shirts in my closet, and I never, never would have thought before FNL would I... TAYLOR KITSCH I played pretty darn competitive-level hockey. Then the good old knee injury. Obviously, it's a ... TAYLOR KITSCH I've always been intimidated by the technicalities of taking photos, especially with a film came... TAYLOR KITSCH A lot of people are surprised to hear that an actor studied for two or three years. They take the cr... TAYLOR KITSCH There's that stigma about New Yorkers, how they're so mean, but in my experience it was quit... TAYLOR KITSCH You never walk out of the gym and say, 'I shouldn't have gone.' TAYLOR KITSCH I work a lot in Africa: Texas and Africa have the best sunsets on the planet, that I've ever see... TAYLOR KITSCH And those Texas sunsets... I work a lot in Africa: Texas and Africa have the best sunsets on the pla... TAYLOR KITSCH I want to be scared. I want to keep taking insane risks. I want to be scared because you're goin... TAYLOR KITSCH I'm an all-or-nothing person. TAYLOR KITSCH I don't do the L.A. scene. I stay focused and very myopic. I don't feel I need to prove myse... TAYLOR KITSCH People hate cardio. I hate cardio. But pick the five top songs that you love. Do your cardio during ... TAYLOR KITSCH A good old rodeo never hurt anyone. TAYLOR KITSCH To me, the most romantic gesture is a quiet night with my girl. I like to cook for her. I'm a me... TAYLOR KINNEY Being on 'The Vampire Diaries' feels almost like a game you play when you're a kid. When... TAYLOR KINNEY My mum wants me to get married - and have children, of course. She's met Gaga; we've been da... TAYLOR KINNEY I want a brood, you know. I'd like to have a little soccer team and a minivan and all that stuff... TAYLOR KINNEY When I was on 'Trauma,' the first order was six, which turned to 12, and then there were rum... TAYLOR KINNEY I once lived in a cottage made entirely of wood, and there was an electrical fire. We all ran outsid... TAYLOR KINNEY I don't have lavish taste. TAYLOR KINNEY I own nothing; I just stay with friends all over the country. TAYLOR KINNEY I think I'd be a good dad; it would be a pleasure. TAYLOR KINNEY As an actor, some of my favorite things to work on are night exterior scenes. Any time that we'r... TAYLOR KINNEY If 'Chicago Fire' goes for a long run, maybe I'll look for a place, but in my line of wo... TAYLOR KINNEY I have a bunch of brothers. I grew up with a big family. TAYLOR KINNEY To be honest, as an actor, job security is not a trait. TAYLOR KINNEY I don't think anybody thinks they're bad, just in life, in general. TAYLOR KINNEY I enjoy my food. I like to grill; I do that a lot. I like meat and have big dinners - steak, red mea... TAYLOR KINNEY