1. I had a lot of friends in high school, but I was never the wild party girl. Never have been, never plan to be!
2. If you ever want something badly, let it go. If it comes back to you, then it's yours forever. If it doesn't, then it was never yours to begin with.3. Everybody on our cast is very musically talented, except for me.
4. I love being at home and cooking and baking.
5. Actually, I'm happiest in Williams-Sonoma in New York. That's a wonderful cooking store.6. I don't drink. I don't do drugs. I grew up with the mindset that when you get home from work, you go to dinner and watch a movie. I don't want to be going to a club and taking off my panties.
7. I can't believe we're being paid to live in New York.
8. I came from a big family - two brothers and two sisters. So, there were always a ton of boys around and a ton of girls around. So, I grew up comfortable with both sexes.9. I didn't have a boyfriend until I was 17. There were boys at school that I would find out later had a crush on me but I was too shy to talk to them.
10. I was raised in California, so this whole New York winter thing is completely new for me. I've already justified buying seven coats!
11. My whole family's been in the business. My whole family is crazy.
12. So, it's cool that, yes, Hal Jordan is a superhero, but my character is a real-world hero in her own life.
13. The Green Lantern is a unique superhero because it's not that he's super that is his focus; it's that he's a man. He's very human. That's his greatest strength and his greatest weakness.
14. (About filming racy scenes on "Gossip Girl") It's the most awkward thing! There's a room of 40 people watching you, they're telling you exactly how to move your head, and it's completely silent. It's awful!
17. I'm on a very commercial show ("Gossip Girl"), so the last thing I want to do is a commercial movie. I wanna take risks, I don't wanna play it safe. I mean, I could probably make more money if I did more commercial projects. It would be nice to buy an apartment, but I'm 22, and I don't need to yet.18. I want to have a brunch place, a bakery, and a Southern restaurant - because my family's from Georgia - and then I want a place that is all-over-the-world cuisine. I take a cooking class everywhere I travel. I find it's the best way to get to know a culture. It's what people bring to the family every day, what they break bread over - it's a very intimate thing.
19. I want babies. Lots of babies. Of course!20. (on how she deals with any tension between work and anything else) I love what I do. I love my work. So, you know, of course I wanted to be at the premiere (of "The Private Lives of Pippa Lee"), but I had a job to do, and so I had to be on the set in Boston and be a part of it. At the end of the day, a premiere is a premiere. It's not somebody living or dying. So for me, this other stuff - well, the perks is not the reason I do the job. Couture fashion week, getting to meet Karl Lagerfeld and John Galliano and Christian Louboutin is so exciting. It's like being a little girl and looking at these designers saying: "Can you imagine one day seeing all of those ball gowns?" But, at the end of the day, I wouldn't be there without my job. There are a few things in life that matter above all else: your family, your friends, your loved ones. But everything else comes and goes - especially in this business where everything is so of the moment.
23. With acting, I think half of it is just acting confident. We stand on these red carpets and pose in these dresses, but we're all only so confident. It doesn't mean we think we're great looking or anything. It's all a façade.24. (on being cast as Carol Ferris in "Green Lantern") It was nice for me that this was a studio that wasn't looking for some girl to have her legs greased up and her boobs out - and that was all that mattered. I imagined that no one else knew anything about "Green Lantern". As soon as I got the role I was humbled about how naive I was. They were grilling me about StarSapphire and Hector Hammond and how many Green Lanterns are going to show up. All I could say was "What are you guys talking about?"25. I probably feel the most alive when I'm with my family and also when I'm cooking, and those normally coincide with each other. I love to cook for my family, that's the best. I have all my nieces and nephews there, and you really use your hands and it's such an experience for all the senses; for the touch, for the smell, for the sight, so you feel really alive.26. I like to play someone who is unlike me and the character I play most often (Serena van der Woodsen on "Gossip Girl"). Time and again, I keep playing drug addicts with sexual issues! I never knew I had a dark side, but this is where I get it out of my system.
27. I'm not in the business of trying to win the approval of my cast members, my director, or my audience. If I were, I'd be so beaten down by insecurity that I'd never be able to perform. The only person I'm trying to prove something to is myself.
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Just in case you are curious about Jennifer Lopez's weight, Jennifer weighs 120 pounds. As for her height, Lopez is 5'6'' . To be more exact, Jennifer Lopez told the Sunday Mirror: "I'm 5' 6" and I weigh 120 pounds so I'm not thin, but I think that's why women identify with me and I'm liked by men. I'm just a normal person."What do you think of Jennifer Lopez's weight?
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TV star Conrad Bain, who portrayed the Park Avenue father on the 1978-85 sitcom "Diff'rent Strokes", passed away in his hometown of Livermore, California, on Monday. He was 89.
His daughter, Jennifer Bain, confirmed his death to PEOPLE, and claimed her dad died of natural causes."He'd been unconscious for a couple of days, but he was comfortable and it was very peaceful," she told of her dad, who also played the argumentative neighbor on the 1972-78 hit show "Maude".
"I was able to be with him very close to the end (and) able to put my ear to his heart and sing him songs," his daughter continued."My father really was a lot like his character in Diff'rent Strokes," his daughter explained. "He had that warmth and stability. He also was a very intellectual person."
She added: "Dad was proud of his work on that show. And the problems the kids had in their lives later affected him. He felt terrible about it." (Bridges struggled with substance-abuse problems, while Coleman, who had personal and financial problems, died in 2010, at the age of 42.)"Dad had a kind heart," was quoted as saying Jennifer Bain. "He was an open-hearted man."
Besides his daughter, Bain is survived by a twin brother, Bonar Bain, and three sons. Their mother, Bain's wife Monica, died in 2009.
R.I.P Conrad Bain
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While appearing on Season 7 of "Dancing with the Stars", Braxton revealed she has been diagnosed with microvascular angina (small vessel disease).People with microvascular angina suffer pain when doing strenuous workout. Other common symptoms of this heart disease are chest pain, anxiety, fatigue, fever, difficulty in breathing and swelling of legs, ankles and feet. Common medications include analgesics, antibiotics and antifungals.
Braxton revealed to "E! News Now" that after hearing of her new diagnosis, she planned to take a year off to let her body and mind heal but she changed her mind.It has to be noted that Braxton has previously suffered from pericarditis. Just in case you are not aware of this heart disease, "pericarditis" is an inflammation of the thin sac (membrane) that surrounds the heart called the pericardium. There is a small amount of fluid between the inner and outer layers of the pericardium. When the pericardium becomes inflamed, the amount of fluid between its two layers increases, compressing the heart and interfering with its ability to function properly. (Source: matercardiology.com)There are many people who wonder if Toni Braxton's previous pericarditis caused her microvascular angina. The answer is that pericarditis could not have led to microvascular angina. 
Braxton realized that something was going wrong four years ago when she felt exhausted and short of breath, with "tightness" in her chest. She chalked it up to starring in "Aida" and to being a new mother to sons Denim and Diesel. At fist she speculated it was her childhood asthma recurring. Finally, during an "Aida" intermission, (in Toni Braxton's own words) she felt the room "spinning a little bit." She wound up in the emergency room - and learned that she suffered from pericarditis, an inflammation of the lining of the heart. Because of the pericarditis, her heart flutters now. Also, Braxton discovered that she had high blood pressure: 160/105 without medication. Now Braxton takes a beta-blocker to lower it and walks on a treadmill at least 20 minutes a day. She also tries to cut off her salty favorite foods, like burgers with bacon. Instead she consumes "vinegary salads," asparagus and low-sodium chicken and jambalaya soups."You think it's some older guy, retired," Braxton was quoted as saying, who is now serving as a spokeswoman for Campbell Soup Co.'s GoRedWithCampbells.com. (The company is donating $1 to the American Heart Association's Go Red for Women campaign for every person who votes for his or her favorite red dress before January 30.) "You can be in your 30s, less than 115 pounds, exercise - and have heart disease," Braxton added.Braxton wants to make a difference by educating people about the importance of identifying and reducing heart disease risk factors and also motivate others to take action to protect their health. When you take a look at Toni Braxton, you can't beleive that this woman suffers from a heart disease. Feel free to comment and share this blog post if you find it interesting!
1. I'm not the type of guy who enjoys one-night stands. It leaves me feeling very empty and cynical. It's not even fun sexually. I need to feel something for the woman and entertain the vain hope that it may lead to a relationship.
2. All I do, really, is go to work and try to be professional, be on time and be prepared.3. God help me if I ever do another movie with an explosion in it. If you see me in a movie where stuff is exploding you'll know I've lost all my money.
4. I'm always described as "cocksure" or "with a swagger," and that bears no resemblance to who I feel like inside. I feel plagued by insecurity.5. I've finally learnt how to say: "No comment". To appear in the tabloids is a real learning curve and a steep one at that. You had better learn quick or you get burnt.
6. If I ever woke up with a dead hooker in my hotel room, Matt would be the first person I'd call.7. I feel like fame is wasted on me.
8. I hate the whole reluctant sex-symbol thing. It's such bull. You see these dudes greased up, in their underwear, talking about how they don't want to be a sex symbol.
9. I just feel like sometimes I'm a force to be dealt with. My talents are sometimes overused and also sometimes underused. It's not easy being me.10. I kinda see my current position like this: Here's your five minutes in the toy store, so you gotta do all the good movies you can before "Chuck Woolery" rings the bell.
11. I like to think that if I were gay I would be out. Rupert Everett-style.
12. I remember back when I was a kid there was a comic strip called Plastic Man. His body was elastic and he could make his extremities as long as he wanted. As a youngster I didn't fully appreciate. But I'm now thinking Plastic Man was probably pretty popular with the ladies.13. Marriage hasn't been my thing. But gay people, knock yourselves out!
14. My mother gets all mad at me if I stay in a hotel. I'm 31-years-old, and I don't want to sleep on a sleeping bag down in the basement. It's humiliating.15. Nobody I represent is pretending to be the pope or a role model for young people. People have to live their lives. They have the right to smoke if they want.
16. Rumors about me? Calista Flockhart, Pam Anderson, and Matt Damon. That's who I'm dating.17. Sure, I suffered a lot. But it's not like the end of the world and it's not who I am. I lead quite a pleasant life and I'm able to divorce a perceived reality from my actual experience of life.
18. There's something really great and romantic about being poor and sleeping on couches.19. There is nothing worse than a thirteen-year-old boy. You're embarrassed by your parents, and you're trying to find your independence because, deep inside, you are so dependent on your mom.
20. Well I've never used that phrase before, but yes she is bootylicious.21. When I look up at the screen and see myself I always have to laugh. Not because I think I'm doing a horrible job, quite the contrary, I just feel it's so surreal to feel like one person can entertain so many at one time.
22. Yes, I'm going to be the President of the United States. You know why? You think you can get chicks by being in the movies? You can really get chicks by being the President.
23. You know George M. Steinbrenner III is the center of all evil in the universe.24. You (Maria Shriver) are so wonderful. You are so beautiful. I have wanted to meet you for the longest time. I'm hitting on you because you're husband is on the other side of the room.
25. Sometimes it's Britney Spears and sometimes it's Carrie Fisher. I can't tell if I've got a Lolita complex or an Oedipus complex.26. (on contract clauses) There's all this language where you can't jump out of a plane or ride motorcycles. You have to go home and just sit there.
27. I like that best as I am so hairy.
28. I dyed my hair for photo tests… I kept it because when am I ever going to be blond again?
29. I'm not doing any press tonight.
30. I feel horrified and sad and a great deal of empathy and lots of frustration.31. One of the ways that I could contribute was to shill some memorabilia, and the other was to talk to you and try to get people to pay attention to this auction.
32. (on the day he had colonic irrigation) I feel I lost my virginity that day in so many ways.
33. I think it's great that you folks down here at WSAV are putting together this kind of telethon…It's representative of what I've seen people doing all over the Low Country around here.34. The thing that kept bringing us back to Pete's movie is that it was a story about real people. It (also) had a very specific locale; Chicago is to this movie what Boston was to "Good Will Hunting"…It was enormously heartfelt and, ultimately, nobody could deny being moved by his story.
35. It's not something that can be ameliorated with the one telethon we did the month afterward. It's a continuing process.36. (on tabloid coverage of his life) It feels like being in a soap opera that you were unwittingly cast in and you have no choice about it. I get to watch my life like everyone else and think: "I can't believe they did that". And, for whatever reason, you become less special for movie audiences. It cheapens the brand if you want to look at it in a really crass sense. But I figure it has to go away at some point. Eventually someone will come along and have a sex tape or someone will play grab-ass with some kids and I'll be off page one.
40. (when asked why he thought George W. Bush, after hearing that New York was under attack on Sept 11, remained in a Florida classroom, doing nothing, for several minutes) It's obviously very disturbing footage. On the one hand, you see a reaction on a man's face that he is clearly pained and shocked. I probably did the same thing sitting on my chair. I was completely freaked out and a little devastated. On the other hand, one does hope that in one's leaders, that they have the instinct to spring into action, to take some action or make the appearance of taking some action. And I was disappointed to see that he didn't do that, although I don't entirely hold it against him because, frankly, I was as shocked and devastated as he was. Although I think flying around in Air Force One for 11 hours before coming back and landing in the White House was probably less forgivable.
45. I'm not known for having great relationships with ex-girlfriends, but I've been able to continue one with (Gwyneth Paltrow) that's really valuable.
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1. I had a lot of friends in high school, but I was never the wild party girl. Never have been, never plan to be! 
Just in case you are curious about Jennifer Lopez's weight, Jennifer weighs 120 pounds. As for her height, Lopez is 5'6'' . 
Toni Braxton, 45, just before beginning the "Dancing with the Stars" in 2008, she came down with a heart disease called "microvascular angina", also known as cardiac syndrome X. 
Braxton realized that something was going wrong four years ago when she felt exhausted and short of breath, with "tightness" in her chest. She chalked it up to starring in "Aida" and to being a new mother to sons Denim and Diesel. At fist she speculated it was her childhood asthma recurring. Finally, during an "Aida" intermission, (in Toni Braxton's own words) she felt the room "spinning a little bit." She wound up in the emergency room - and learned that she suffered from pericarditis, an inflammation of the lining of the heart. Because of the pericarditis, her heart flutters now. Also, Braxton discovered that she had high blood pressure: 160/105 without medication. 
1. I'm not the type of guy who enjoys one-night stands. It leaves me feeling very empty and cynical. It's not even fun sexually. I need to feel something for the woman and entertain the vain hope that it may lead to a relationship. 
