I went from living in the Dominican Republic - every day, my mom and I would cook, or we'd go hang out with the kids - to flying a private jet to Chicago with Zac Efron and Dennis Quaid. People had champagne, and they were going to these amazing restaurants. It was a culture shock. It's important, I think, to have that. To see both sides.
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Related My love for cooking began when I was young. Because my parents were in the army, they were both real... TIA MOWRY I was a bed wetter till very late. My mom used to hang my sheets out the window to dry, and I'd ... VINCE VAUGHN I went through a phase when I was 13 where I would only fall in love with people over the age of 19 ... OLIVIA WILDE I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES I've spent a lot of years living with normal people. If I take a private jet to go to a meeting ... BRUNELLO CUCINELLI The market is still waiting for HSBC results, which will have a big impact on the direction of the m... ANDREW TO Property shares had a technical rebound, but interest rate concerns will still affect properties unt... ANDREW TO Bank of China's results were quite good; double-digit growth can be taken as good results for a bank... ANDREW TO The index tried to challenge 18,000 but failed, so that triggered profit taking. Tokyo's slide also ... ANDREW TO Trading seems to be focusing on selective counters because investors are cautious amid interest rate... ANDREW TO We're seeing a minor technical rebound after Wall Street rebounded from two days of losses. The key ... ANDREW TO Some investors have returned to pick up the stock at bargain prices. ANDREW TO I think the take-up for the placement is not too good and other property developers may be discourag... ANDREW TO We are afraid that our freedoms and liberties will be infringed in the future. ANDREW TO I think there was some minor selling pressure on telecom stocks as the market continued to see a wea... ANDREW TO I'm asking God to bless you with something that unsettles you, disturbs you, and upsets you. CRAIG GROESCHEL It's important to show that there's different ways of doing things. Some people like to be g... ALESSIA CARA I used to dress up in my mom's old clothes and play with these kids from the neighbourhood and m... HEATHER GRAHAM I'm always surrounded by good-looking guys, like Zac Efron, so I have to be with someone who'... ASHLEY TISDALE There was always music in our home. My mom and my dad loved music. I remember when we were kids we w... QUEEN LATIFAH I mean, I'd love to have a private jet - I know people who fly by private jet all the time... I&... MARC JACOBS I went to public school my whole life, graduated high school with my class. Growing up, I'd go t... SHAILENE WOODLEY I have a dream, I have a vision, I have a mission, I have to do something, I will do this at this ti... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH People forget that there are villages and communities that are still speaking French all over Canada... MARC-ANDRE GRONDIN Anyone can learn how to communicate with animals if they are open to the process and willing to prac... KAREN A. ANDERSON I picked ducks in a tub in my dorm room. I'd hang deer in the doorway between the bedroom and th... PHIL ROBERTSON When I was a kid just starting out on the radio, I would always watch people. And I'd see the in... EDDIE TRUNK Some people never take a chance and never know what it's like to live life to the full. CHLOE THURLOW I have to tell you that I love people. When I see the kids coming up and see what they have done wit... BETTY WRIGHT I would love to close my eyes and see myself with my girlfriend when we're 99 years old and I ha... CHRIS MESSINA Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON The funniest people I know were, not necessarily troubled, but had a harder time in school or were s... KAITLIN OLSON The scientific method gives us
information by testing and repeating observable things so that we
can... LEWIS N. ROE The role of the
Christian is to let other people know what Jesus has done, not to
think of themselve... LEWIS N. ROE Naturalistic atheism debunks itself. It
has no power to explain even some
of the most basic principl... LEWIS N. ROE It's important to understand that if
someone calls themselves a Christian, it does not automatically... LEWIS N. ROE A Ritual to Read to Each Other If you don’t know the kind of person I am and... WILLIAM STAFFORD Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it SARA SHEPARD In order to honor God with your wealth, you first have to admit that you are rich. Most people won't... CRAIG GROESCHEL To have the cognitive abilities to do research and development is vital to a forever expanding world... GARY F EVANS... Before this DJ thing, I was hopelessly taking things apart to try to figure out how they worked. I... GRANDMASTER FLASH In my opinion, Zac Efron is a total hero. Him seeking help encourages other people with addictive is... MARCIA GAY HARDEN My mother was not the cook in the family. My dad was. I'd watch him behind the grill, and I said... JESSE MCCARTNEY Food brings back memories. I had a mom that wasn't a good cook, so I would eat my grandma's ... DEBI MAZAR I was sitting on my mom's lap across from my father to see Kay Thompson at Ciro's. And I alw... LIZA MINNELLI How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful. EVANS G. VALENS I just never have really been the kind of person that's out in public being inappropriate, I gue... EMMA ROBERTS More than anything I want to get up there and hang out with the audience, make everybody feel like i... KATE VOEGELE I did find some time to go to a record store and check out 'Headstrong' actually in the rack... ASHLEY TISDALE Everyone's parents were famous actors at my school, pretty much! I think I went to school with P... ALICE EVE It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill JUDE WATSON Kids will keep it real. If I've ever had in my life a great anchor, it's them. They get in y... LIONEL RICHIE I never thought I'd be making a living off of acting - it's still kind of a shock for my fam... MATTHEW GRAY GUBLER Yes! Very funny this terrible thing is. A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls i... JOSEPH CONRAD That's why we seize the moment try to freeze it and own it, squeeze it and hold it. EMINEM If they would have told me when I was just 18 that I was going to have a career that would last so l... ENRIQUE IGLESIAS Basically, I feel like people have always taken photos of themselves. When I was in college, I had t... EVA CHEN We have our little restaurants, and there's a beautiful beach that we go to in the summer and fa... KATIE HOLMES There's a number of years that went by going from a white belt to a black belt. And I think, in ... D'BRICKASHAW FERGUSON Do I have the courage of being a ruthless man to myself with the complete knowledge on my manner or ... FEREIDOON YAZDI I went to a lot of theatre. My parents were very involved with the performing arts. I went to nightc... LAINIE KAZAN With every job I've gotten, I've bought myself something. When 'Glee' was picked up,... DIANNA AGRON My mom would take me to restaurants, and the first thing I'd ask for would be a pen and a napkin... ALEXANDER WANG Eventually I came across another passage. This is what it said: I am not commanding you, but I ... NICHOLAS SPARKS To kill a mockingbird. If you haven't read it, I think you should because it is very interesting. STEPHEN CHBOSKY I will never forget the vision of Jamie walking towards me. NICHOLAS SPARKS As these images were going through my head, my breathing suddenly went still. I looked at Jamie, the... NICHOLAS SPARKS You don't have to learn much out of books, it's like if you want to learn about cows, you go milk on... HARPER LEE You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them. HARPER LEE When I was younger I would go to the airport with my friends and drive out 2 A.M., 3 A.M. in the mor... YUNA These days it's cool to be ethnic and to be different, but when I was a kid, it was not cool - a... GIADA DE LAURENTIIS When I was living in the Dominican Republic, the local kids became a part of my family. MAIKA MONROE I can't work all day and then go home and hang out with the same people. I don't want everyt... KEKE PALMER I had the poster of 'Hairspray' right above my bed. And I had the biggest crush on Zac Efron... DOVE CAMERON I'd like more kids to go and see theatre because it really is amazing. CHARLIE ROWE I'd love to do a film with Michael Fassbender. He's one of my heroes. I think he's absol... JACK REYNOR I went to a prep school in Chicago, and my dad and mom worked really hard - even though we lived in ... MICHAEL PENA I didn't bring my headphones, I'd watched the two movies they had played and I was just like... CAT OSTERMAN Congratulations, to the people which made gotham series, still need some more and extra work! DEYTH BANGER I think that many people will intentionally overlook all of the lifeless facts about their relations... C. JOYBELL C. When I was young and it was someone's birthday, I didn't have the money to buy nice presents... DAVID HENRIE Get this (economic plan) passed. Later on, we can all debate it. , TO NEW HAMPSHIRE LEGISLATORS I was going to McDonald's and Taco Bell every day. The kids behind the counter knew me - it woul... EMINEM I'd go to Coney Island to hang out, and I saw a magician doing a rope trick on the boardwalk. I ... DAVID BLAINE Friendship is a double-edged sword one side it can be great and true but the other side it spells be... GARY F EVANS... The atheist might have
no proof for the
supernatural, but they
also have no proof
against it. If we ... LEWIS N. ROE You don't have to stick with these recipes. They're guides. As I say, they're a way in. ... SALLY SCHNEIDER It's phenomenally important to me that, if I'm going to be spending years on a project, I ne... MARY MCDONNELL It SMELLS ancient," - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON Palm trees were fanned by a warm, light breeze, and they rolled down their windows to smell the sea. JUDE WATSON I make bangers all the time, and I knew it was going to come. My mom probably used to think it wasn&... TY DOLLA SIGN My stepfather had a connection with The Second City and told me I should go there. I woke up in a co... IAN GOMEZ I did organize something in high school like a school walkout. These kids were locked up in their sc... BOJANA NOVAKOVIC For me, living and making music, they're one thing. It's not like a job that I go to a studi... JOHN FRUSCIANTE I grew up, as I joke around, in the 'People's Republic of Charlestown' in the city of Bo... JONATHAN TUCKER People think that the people in Hollywood have some master plan. They just make the movies that peop... ALAN ARKIN I auditioned in Chicago for Juilliard and didn't get in. I was basically living in a back room o... ADAM DRIVER Most of us think we're too busy or too important to rest for a day. CRAIG GROESCHEL I used to say, 'Mad' takes on both sides.' We even used to rake the hippies over the coa... AL FELDSTEIN I don't think there's going to be a day when I don't think about food or my body, but I&... DEMI LOVATO
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