I kind of assumed all of Australia was like the Gold Coast - so I was telling people Australians just work out and go to the beach. Like, Australia has it figured out! But then I went to Sydney, and it was nothing like the Gold Coast - but I still loved it.

I'm from a place where young people traditionally do not have resources.

Acting was always in the back of my head.

I'm not very excitable as a person. What I say is, I'm always chillin', I'm always chillin'.

I did not sit down and watch 'Baywatch' growing up. But I do specifically remember it coming on, and I remember it going off. I watched something that came on right before and then going back to that channel to watch what was coming on afterwards.

I had taken an acting class at Berkeley - I was on the track team, and a friend of mine on the team said, 'You should take an acting class. It's just like recess.' So I viewed it as a simple credit.

I was studying architecture at Berkeley when my father passed away in 2007. We knew he had cancer, but we didn't expect it to escalate so rapidly. In my mind, it was like, 'He'll pull through.' When he didn't, I didn't understand. I was 21, and my best friend had died.

I kind of just skyrocketed out of graduate school.

“Allowing homosexuality means allowing satanic rights.”

“I will develop the areas that vote for me, but if you don't vote for me, don't expect anything.”

“Every Westerner is jubilating that the Berlin Wall has fallen. Something worst than the Berlin Wall is in Palestine; and nobody is talking about it.”

“The missile that downed the Malaysian plane, they say, is a Russian-made missile. But the weapons that are used in the barbarism in the barbaric act against the Palestinians were made by the West, and nobody is blaming them. Nobody talks about it; not even the U.N. Security Council can pass a resolution against Israel!”

As an independent Muslim country, we will not be tied to any bloc that promotes decadence and ungodly behavior, we are no longer going to entertain any dialogue with the European Union, either directly or through the sub-regional, regional and international blocs of which we are members.

We will get to the bottom of this and we will not spare anybody.

So far there is not a single Gambian or dissidents from Britain who came to join to them (the coup plotters); so I am very sorry.

“Altogether, if I'd been looking at nothing but the media all these years, I would be a much more discouraged person-especially given the notion that only conflict is news, and that objectivity means being evenhandedly negative.” 

“Dress like you are going to meet your worst enemy today.”

“The best things in life are free. The second-best are very expensive.”

What we like to think of ourselves and what we really are rarely have much in common....

Beauty is when you can appreciate yourself. When you love yourself, that’s when you’re most beautiful.

Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.

The world is merciless, and it’s also very beautiful.

When you leave a beautiful place, you carry it with you wherever you go.

But he who dares not grasp the thorn. Should never crave the rose.