I've never been a waif; I have a womanly figure and always did.

I love to cook. I make an award-winning turkey chili.

My mom has this great skiing event in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, every year for a local charity.

It's challenging, but you have to at least try to eat right and exercise.

I am vegetarian, though, and so is my family.

I'm sure that my mom would have been happy with any path I chose.

I don't believe in depriving myself of any food or being imprisoned by a diet.

Eating vegetables makes me feel good.

More important, you have to stay happy and positive or the stress will kill you - but at least it will make you skinny

I am still learning every day not to watch other people's careers and compare.

I'm obsessed with cooking shows, even though they make everything look so easy when it isn't.

It is an economic fact that predicting the future is most valuable when everybody things you are wrong.

I feel very passionate about maintaining the same level of standard and respect for the food as an Iron Chef myself.

Criticising the other fellow because he's in and you are not seems to me a futile waste of time.

And I love the hate mail I get, the unsigned, misspelled letters I get telling me to go back to Russia or wherever.

Arelia looked up at Macon. "It's not the house that protects her. It's the boy. I've never seen anything like it. No Caster can come between them.

The longing for paradise is paradise itself.

Women especially as to be talked to as below men, and above children.

Maybe the Dalai Lama is the only person who is totally honest, and even with him, he's skillful not to hurt anybody. He's skillful.

So many of my friends tell me they’re not religious. I’m like, Of course you’re religious. You watch Oprah Winfrey, don’t you?

Skepticism requires disbelief and curiosity, not conformity to conventional wisdom. There's no science here. This is pure politics.