The thing about being in America is when you are driving with the sun on your back, there's hip hop. I never used to be into hip hop, but there's hip hop in the food, soul food, there's hip hop in the cars.


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I love funky styles. Not preppy or rock, just funky!
VANESSA HUDGENS
I may have had a crush on Zac, but we are like brother and sister, so nothing would ever happen.
VANESSA HUDGENS
Do not just look at your boyfriend as just a boyfriend. Look at him as a friend, too.
VANESSA HUDGENS
I'd like to go out with friends, but I train twice a day, then I go to school, and at night I go...
VANESSA FERRARI
I'd say I'm quite powerful so I'm not afraid of jumps or acrobatic elements. The hardest...
VANESSA FERRARI
The Ferrari is a beautiful car. It's great.
VANESSA FERRARI
New York's my home. Born and raised. I'm a New Yorker to the bone.
VANESSA FERLITO
You have to really love women in order to really just have a respect for women and love them. No man...
VANESSA FERLITO
Kurt Russell is so dreamy. Plus, he's great to work with, really respectful.
VANESSA FERLITO
Quentin Tarantino is a genius. I want to do every single film with him.
VANESSA FERLITO
I do yoga; I'm pretty dedicated.
VANESSA FERLITO
I have to be honest - I don't love guns.
VANESSA FERLITO
I'm still Vanessa from the neighborhood. My parents own the shop, and I'm there all the time...
VANESSA FERLITO
I torture my mother with all my problems, that poor woman.
VANESSA FERLITO
I always get scared. I can't read scripts. I'm scared, scary movies and stuff.
VANESSA FERLITO
The first thing I went out for was 'The Sopranos' and I got it, so that's how it happene...
VANESSA FERLITO
The funny thing is I'm not even Latin. I was constantly getting Latin roles, and I was like, I e...
VANESSA FERLITO
You know, I still live in my neighborhood. I live in Brooklyn and the same neighborhood, so I don...
VANESSA FERLITO
I was a club kid. I was on the cover of 'New York' magazine and discovered like that.
VANESSA FERLITO
At Camellia Network, we believe if we can create a way of identifying every young person aging out o...
VANESSA DIFFENBAUGH
I was a screenwriting and studio art major in college, so even though I don't have any training ...
VANESSA DIFFENBAUGH
I think that the hardest thing about working with young people in foster care who've been throug...
VANESSA DIFFENBAUGH
The names of common flowers change from decade to decade, so I spent a lot of time with old outdated...
VANESSA DIFFENBAUGH
I wanted to write with emotional honesty and tell a story people could connect with. And I wanted pe...
VANESSA DIFFENBAUGH
I'm missing work. We didn't have enough money for preschool. I had a panic attack. I couldn&...
VANESSA DIFFENBAUGH
We were pressured to accept kids we were not qualified to handle. And we do that to people all the t...
VANESSA DIFFENBAUGH
The most violent and troubling stories become part of our national consciousness about foster care.
VANESSA DIFFENBAUGH
Our standards for motherhood are so high that many of us harbor intense, secret guilt for every hars...
VANESSA DIFFENBAUGH
I'm very interested in getting inside the heads of people society discards, people on the fringe...
VANESSA DIFFENBAUGH
First drafts are never any good - at least, mine aren't.
VANESSA DIFFENBAUGH
There aren't always, especially in low-income communities, the arts and the dance and the drama ...
VANESSA DIFFENBAUGH
We have been trained to broadcast our successes and hide our failures. But the truth is this: our fa...
VANESSA DIFFENBAUGH
My husband and I have been involved with foster youth since our early 20s. Right out of college and ...
VANESSA DIFFENBAUGH
I founded Camellia Network with my dear friend Isis Dallis Keigwin. The mission of our organization ...
VANESSA DIFFENBAUGH
I don't think there is anything magical about the language of flowers in real life or in my book...
VANESSA DIFFENBAUGH
It is stories - both real and fictional - that can captivate hearts, change minds and, in the most p...
VANESSA DIFFENBAUGH
Though politics is by nature divisive, surely we all can agree that foster children need stability, ...
VANESSA DIFFENBAUGH
We all make mistakes, and we all need second chances. For youth in foster care, these mistakes are o...
VANESSA DIFFENBAUGH
I've always loved the language of flowers. I discovered Kate Greenaway's 'Language of Fl...
VANESSA DIFFENBAUGH
I've worked with homeless kids, kids in foster care, and I've never met a kid who couldn'...
VANESSA DIFFENBAUGH
My last book, 'The Language of Flowers,' I wrote completely on naptime, when my little kids ...
VANESSA DIFFENBAUGH
We are more and more into technology. Everything is texting, and everything is instant. Flowers are ...
VANESSA DIFFENBAUGH
My songs are a direct route into my brain and my heart.
VANESSA CARLTON
If Mozart were around now he would write a killer rock song.
VANESSA CARLTON
I don't use sex to sell records, obviously, but I'd be lying if I said that I don't feel...
VANESSA CARLTON
I don't put boundaries on myself when I sit at the piano.
VANESSA CARLTON