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All Quotes by author - Brooke Shields

" As I'm getting older, I'm enjoying my vices so much more because I feel like I've deserved them. "

" Being nice to everybody, saying hello to everyone in the room, signing every autograph; it was instilled in me at a very young age that this was what I was suppose to do. But I don't think it helps at all. I see more people who are rude or arrogant being rewarded - but, this way, I can put my head on the pillow at night. "

" Don't waste a minute not being happy. If one window closes, run to the next window- or break down a door. "

" Have faith in your own thoughts. "

" Honesty is the quality I value most in a friend. Not bluntness, but honesty with compassion. "

" I have a group of friends in my life, and we all give each other something different. I've known my two closest friends for many years. One is a friend from high school, and the other I met right after college. My deep, deep friends remind me every day of the good parts of my personality. "

" I hope this will help new moms not feel alone or desperate, and that there is no shame in their feelings. PPD is out of their control, but the treatment and healing process is not. "

" I love getting baths and going to the Korean spas and getting pummeled and scrubbed, and its so hot in the sauna you can't even stand it. I have to do things in a pretty extreme way to calm down. So a Swedish massage is not going to do it! I need to know that they're in there with their thumbs and moving stuff around. "

" It was my mom and I against the world. We lived in New York in this bohemian lifestyle where an extended group of artists and photographers were like my aunts and uncles. "

" I was always with a single mom, and we never had schedules or anything. We were just Bohemian, us against the world, which was kind of great, but it certainly didn't breed security. I've gotten hyper-sensitive to schedules and bath time and eating at the dinner table. We don't just 'Bohemian' go out at nine o'clock and go get Chinese food. "

" I was such a nerd, a complete geek, but then I was lucky enough to have a fancy career, where I can be like 'See, I'm not a nerd. Look, I'm in 'Vogue.' "

" I would have thought that I would have become one of those parents - just because it's my nature to be such a perfectionist - that anything falling short, I would have seen as a failure. But something has happened to me over the past few years - it's not Zen, believe me, I'm not at all Zen - but I'm so appreciative of even the chaos. "

" Modeling is the world that I feel most welcome in. "

" My father's death, my move, and my frightening and difficult delivery created a tremendous amount of stress, pain, and sadness for me. I was practically devastated beyond recovery. "

" My younger years of modeling were really just filled with fun trips. I was doing catalogues for Alexander's and Bloomingdale's. "

" Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life. "

" Someone said adversity builds character, but someone else said adversity reveals character. I'm pleasantly surprised with my resilience. I persevere, and not just blindly. I take the best, get rid of the rest, and move on, realizing that you can make a choice to take the good. "

" The difficulty of IVF or of any fertility issues is the hope and the shattered hope, the dream that it might happen this time and then it doesn't happen. "

" The most rewarding thing is being on Broadway. I went into Cabaret as a replacement and was really challenged beyond anything I could have imagined. "

" The older I get, the younger I feel. Growing up, I was always the kid, but I spoke like an adult and was in adult roles. I didn't feel like a kid. The older I get, I actually feel younger! Which is good. I always thought when you get older, you'll want to slow down, but I want to do even more. "

" The thing about Broadway, they always welcome you with open arms. "

" The thing I'm the most proud of in my personal life is that my daughter actually thinks that I'm fabulous. "

" The very damaging, frightening part of postpartum is the lack of perspective and the lack of priority and understanding what is really important. "

" Too many people use abortion as a form of birth control. And that's very wrong. I could never, ever have an abortion. "

" You don't necessarily have to be in misery to be talented. "

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