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For a while, I could only wear sweat pants because I was that intermediate size that you’re not a small, you’re not a large.

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I would sing anywhere they would invite me. That’s how I made my first pesos. I used to sing at beauty pageants, local events of every sort.
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Anything First Invite Made Person Sing
We need to provide higher quality and innovative early childhood development programs all throughout Latin America.
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Childhood Country Develop Higher Innovative Early Need Program Provide Quality Throughout
The worst frustration for a singer is choosing a career in making music and then not being able to make music because you’re always giving interviews.
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Career Choose Frustration Make Music Singer Sure Worst
When I finally did see him, he was even cuter than I imagined!
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Culter Even Finally Imagine
I think, that if you can prove the existence of God, it can only be proven through love.
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Existence God Love Prove Proven Think Through
I wanna stay an eternal girlfriend. I want to have my boyfriend’s children, but I don’t think we need a piece of paper to regulate the game, and we don’t have to go through the whole stress of a wedding and suffering to throw a good party.
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Boyfriend Children Eternal Girlfriend Need Paper Peace Regulation Stay Wanna
At the age of eight, I discovered that I could write songs.
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Age Could Discover Eight Song Write
My therapist taught me why I behave in certain ways and not to feel so pressured.
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Behave Certain Feel Pressure Taught Therapist Way
So I like the work he’s doing, and I support it, and I realise that he’s one of very few political leaders around the world that actually has early-childhood development strategise at the top of his agenda.
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Actual Childhood Development Leader Political Strategies Support
I think a fragrance is all about sensations and imagery, and can evoke visions, feelings and thoughts.
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Evoke Feeling Fragrance Imagery Sensation Think Thought Vision
I do feel that I have to use my voice for those that don’t have one. I have to do the best I can in my own work to represent my culture, represent the women of my country, of Latin America. What we stand for. What we’re made of.
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Feel One Use Voice
I started the Pies Descalzos foundation in Colombia when I was 18, and since then, I have been very involved in the crusade for education.
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If it was up to me, I would just wear jeans and t-shirts, even to red carpets, but then no one would photograph me, so that would make me very sad. So you know, I’ve gotta keep up with the rest of the female population and sometimes try a little harder.
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Carpet Even Jeans Photograph Red Tshirt Wear
My videos represent the artist in me very well, but not the kind of woman I am.
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Artist Itself Kind Represent Video Well Woman
Our generation faces many challenges, some of which were passed on to us by the past generations, but it’s up to us to find solutions today so that we don’t keep passing our problems on.
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Challenge Face Generation Keep Many Paas Past Problem Solution
Sensual is everything that refers to the delight of the senses. And that’s what artists do, is stimulate the senses in any possible way.
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Delight Everything Refer Sense Sensual
It’s not easy to work with me, I recognize that. It’s not easy if those people aren’t as perfectionistic as I am.
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Easy People Perfectionist Recognize Work
I started my own Pies Descalzos/Barefoot Foundation when I was 18. We provide education to vulnerable children in Colombia and other developing countries.
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Country Eighteen Foundation Own People Person Start
I never made it to the school choir because the music teacher didn’t like my voice.
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Choir Made Music never School Teacher Voice
My songs are the reflection of how I think and how I feel in that moment. But I’m conscious of the fact that artists have a responsibility before the masses and they have to take care with their words.
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Feel How Moment Reflection Song Think
You feel that there is an avalanche coming when you meet the right person.
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Avalanche Come Feel Meet Person Right When
Elixir’ means magical potion, so I wanted to depict the kind of bottle that was used in ancient times, but that looked modern and chic as well. I also wanted it to have a golden tint to evoke the memories of sands and sunsets.
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Ancient Bottle Depict Elixir Kind Look Magicial Mean Modern Potion Times Use Want
Gerard is just like me, but two meters tall. We’re very alike; it’s not for nothing that we were born on the same day, it’s just that he was born 10 years later… he’s a happy guy, healthy here, in the head.
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Country Just Meter People Person Tall
Becoming a mom forced me to re-prioritize and make room for the things that are most important, while recognizing that there are things I can let go of, and the world won’t crumble around me.
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I always had the intuition, even as a little child, that I was called for a big project.
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Always Big Call Child Intuition Little Project
I tried to give my career a shot from Barranquilla, but the musicians would never show up. It was just not taken seriously.
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I was five years old; I got addicted to being on stage. I felt like it was the most wonderful place on Earth, performing in front of an audience, who in this case were a bunch of classmates, kids my age.
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Addict Being Earth Felt Fice Most Old Perform Place Stage Wonderful Year

For a while, I could only wear sweat pants because I was that intermediate size that you’re not a small, you’re not a large.

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