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I've always been me. I've always been very direct and have told the truth and have been very willing to stand up and speak out.

I come from a very loving, stable background where I've been persuaded to just be myself and anything is possible.

I've always been very happy. I've always been easy going and I've always been very encouraging; it's just my personality.

I've always been a religious person.

I am, first of all, a Christian and, secondly, a person with very very serious personal opinion, so I'm motivated by many many things and, certainly, not by the need or desire to satisfy other people's ideas of who I am.

I've always thrived on the encouragement of others.

I think I've always been somebody, since the deaths of my father and brother, who was afraid to hope. So, I was more prepared for failure and for rejection than for success.

I've gotten to meet so many people who've inspired me as a human being.

I'm still the same person I've always been.

So many times, people want you to stay the way you were, be as you were before because they want to encapsulate you in a time so they can remember their youth. But you're here to continually push forward and move forward. That's where I'm at - I just want to always surprise people.