I danced for 15 years of my life. Which was my love and my passion.

I think you always need to try your best, but at the same time you can only do what you can do. Don't beat yourself up about it.

I'm not white-picket-fence perfect.

I like to dream, but I like to make things happen.

I was determined to experience the birth, and I am so scared at the thought of having my abdomen cut open. So I was lucky that the birth went very smoothly.

It's important to keep a balanced diet, but I'm not a fan of deprivation. If I want a cheeseburger, I am not only going to eat that cheeseburger, but I'm going to enjoy that cheeseburger.

You should spend your money on some nice lingerie. Big wool cotton pants, that just doesn't work. You have to feel sexy.

I represent more the healthy, happy, curvy, strong woman. And that sounds much healthier to me than being 80 pounds and skinny as a bean.

Pursue success, long after any sane person would have given up.

Because I'm on the runway with some of the best models in the industry.

My career never suffered from my not being skinny. I never did catwalk work because I was always too big. I couldn't get the clothes over my hips.

never trust anyone who says they do not see color. this means to them, you are invisible.

Sweet are the uses of adversity.

The commonality between science and art is in trying to see profoundly - to develop strategies of seeing and showing.

It lies not in our power to love or hate, for will in us is overruled by fate.

In order to fly, all one must do is simply miss the ground.

We just kept moving back and forth because my mother never had a job. We kept getting kicked out of every house we were in. I believe six months was the longest we ever lived in a house.

When you become published and become a reviewer, piles of books come along and you are pushed by fashion and what you are commissioned to do.

I think it’s more like a shirt that says, ‘I’m going to have to end this date early so I can go prepare my Power Point presentation

I'm not good enough, technically, to be a classic musician. I lack discipline.

The worst thing an old man can be is a lover.