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With a positive attitude, you can be anything you want to be.
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I'm the happiest I've been in a while.. So blessed and thankful for the future, for release and to finally be happy for those I loved.
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I'm pretty confident in who I am. I know that for parents everywhere, it's my job to be a role model, and I'm going to do the best I possibly can.
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If you have a dream, don't let anyone take it away.
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It's overwhelming ... to know there are hundreds of kids out there that look up to me. I know that's a big responsibility. I am also very confident to say that it is wonderful and I'll do my best that I can do to be the best role model I can be.
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It's important to always say thank you to your BFF.
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Anywhere in the world you go, you find racism, discrimination. Not just in the United States, or in Texas. It's very sad for me, but that's the way it is. I can't change the world by myself. I, being Hispanic, have also faced discrimination. But … the world keeps turning.
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He knew. I could see it in his face. Look, if someone gets infected you've got between ten and twenty seconds to kill them. It might be your brother or your sister or your oldest friend. It makes no difference. And just so you know where you stand - if it happens to you, I'll do it in a heartbeat.
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Now's the time to take a chance, come on we've gotta make a stand. What do we have to lose the choice is in our hands.
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That one time I had ma Latina texture going on.. Or just.. everyday.
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I can't count how many pairs of Converse shoes I own.
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I love acting, and that's my passion. So I would love to do more movies and some serious things
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Breathing in, breathing out, ain't that what it's all about. Living life crazy loud, like I have the right to.
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I think love is blind. You don't see it, you don't hear what people are saying, or what you're saying. You don't see what you're doing. All you see is the person in front of you. That's it.
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I don't do any crazy diets. I take vitamins and eat three times a day.
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I love Friends, so I try to bring Jennifer Aniston's mannerisms to my show.
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What I don’t like are arrogant people. We’re all equal. I don’t like it when a person assumes to be better. It angers me a little. There are a lot of people like that, but the world keeps turning. I also don’t like lies. I’m very honest. I’m always going to tell the truth. I don’t lie. I treat my friends the way I want to be treated.
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Late at night when all the world is sleeping I stay up and think of you and I wish on a star that somewhere you are thinking of me too...Cause I'm dreaming of you tonight 'Til tomorrow I'll be holding you tight! And there's nowhere in the world I'd rather be than here in my room, dreaming about you and me.
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Be strong minded, and always believe that the impossible is possible.
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You get a lot farther in life without drugs.
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All I need to do is try and do the best that I can do.
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The life of an artist is not all glamorous. It's a lot of work. A lot of people think that it's very easy.
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I'm kind of lame. I prefer quiet evenings at home, hanging out with my family.
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I also don't exercise. I can't imagine exercising for two hours. Not my style.
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Tejano music is a very relaxing style and it reminds me of home.
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What I don't like are arrogant people. We're all equal. I don't like it when a person assumes to be better.
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I eat anything, and I'm not preoccupied with my figure. The most important [thing] is that the people accept me for my music, not for physical appearances.
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I'm very real, very sincere and honest, and that's how I'll always be.
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People are put into your life for seasons, for different reasons, and to teach you lessons.
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I feel very proud to be Mexican. I didn't have the opportunity to learn Spanish when I was a girl, but ... it's never too late to get in touch with your roots.
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Be at your best at all times.
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The reason I'm really appreciative of everything that's going on around me is because of the fact that I never expected it, and I want to keep that attitude.
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When you get hard work you get success, and we put a lot of years into it.
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You have to take what you could get when you're getting started.
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I'm from Texas, we fry everything.
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I get so mad about ex-boyfriends, but if a boy hurts me, I don't write a song about it. They don't deserve it!
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Most of my songs are about love, I am a 16 year old teenager and I sing about what is on every girls mind. Love
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Being your self its all a takes if you want to be impressed someone dont be some one else just be your self
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All this is a dream to me. Everything, the applause, the fans asking for autographs, the trips, all that is a dream.
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We went through a hard time, and we had to turn to music as a means to putting food on the table. And we've been doing it ever since. No regrets either.
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I'm spoiled in the sense that now I get what I want but it's because I work for it.
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I think I'm a very kindhearted person, I don't like to hurt people's feelings. If I do, it's not intentionally and I feel a lot of people nowadays have lost that.
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Since I was small, when I was in school, I was a business girl. I would buy things to sell, gums for three cents, things like that.
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So a part of you is broken when that’s gone. And part of you wants to have that rebellious feeling where you’re just like, forget it — I can do anything I want. I’ve tried it, and I’ve never been that girl. I’m always going to be the girl you want to take home to your parents, not for the night.
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I miss going to school and having friends; that's normal for anyone my age. I had a very boring childhood because I never had the opportunity to associate with anybody my own age due to my career. I miss being around kids my own age.
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Who says, who says you're not perfect? Who says you're not worth it? Who says you're the only one that's hurting? Trust me, that's the price of beauty, who says you're not pretty? Who says you're not beautiful?... Who says?
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What I do on stage, you won't catch me doing off stage. I mean, I think deep down I'm still kind of, like, timid and modest about a lot of things. But on stage, I release all that; I let it
go.
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I have nothing bad to say about my job. I love the public, I love to talk, get to know people, everything.
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I came to my mom and told her I wanted to do this[acting].
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Dancing allows me to go away and not have to think of what I’m doing next. That is the opportunity for me to really escape. I like to say I have a good sense of judgment, but I know that not everybody does. The older I’ve gotten, the more I’ve learned that I have to open myself up to all opportunities. Maybe I’ll get burned and not meet the right people, but I won’t know until I do it.
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