I didn't have any doubts about my choice of career, but I had constant doubts about my ability, yes.
[Running] is a hard, simple calculus: Run until you can’t run anymore. Then run some more. Find a new source of energy and will. Then run even faster.
As a kid, I loved Paula Poundstone and Richard Pryor. But my mother was a huge influence on my comedy.
If you don't take care of this the most magnificent machine that you will ever be given...where are you going to live?
When I grow up I am going to be a ballerina. I will be in Giselle. It will be so much fun being a ballerina.
Like everyone else, I want to go on dancing forever, but I know the day is going to come when I will have to be doing something else.
I'm about to play an emaciated pregnant vampire, so I've stopped using as much butter as Paula Deen - just until 'Breaking Dawn' is over.
I'm in the kitchen five days a week, no matter what, and one or two of those days I'm on the line. Not because I have to be, but because I want to be.
Whenever I'm being invited to the New York City Marathon like today, I need to think twice because I know it's a very tough race.
No rules. Don't be afraid to do whatever you want. Cooking doesn't have to have rules. I don't like it that way.
I think it's very expensive to not eat healthy. Eating healthy is the only affordable option we have left.
Even before the earthquake in Haiti, only half the country's population had a source of safe drinking water.
Not only does the summer bring warm weather and tons of summer activities, but it also yields a fresh crop of increasingly useful avocados!
Chocolate is one of the world's most beloved discoveries, and when we need a quick boost of energy and endorphins, chocolate is the go-to treat.
Cooking turkey every year doesn't have to be monotonous - I want people to always mix it up using different spices and preparations.
As an adopted person, once you find out about that 'other' side of yourself, it's almost like you find out who you really are.
My father loved to take us on historical vacations, and you should have seen the stares we received in East Berlin.
While keeping active is a major aspect of staying fit, what you use for fuel definitely factors in.
The journey into adoption started for my parents, as it does with so many families: my mother and father desperately wanted to have kids, but they couldn't.
With all the endless varieties and toppings you can add to burgers, there's no need to keep munching on the boring burgers and ketchup found at all the tailgating events and BBQs.
At thirteen, when I arrived in Hong Kong after leaving China, I made a living by working in a restaurant.
