“We also try to teach them both Portuguese and Serbian, though English is their primary language.”

I like jealous men. I love jealousy. I do.

We [me and my husban] like to honor both of our family traditions whenever possible.

Here in the big city people spend their time thinking about work and about money.

That’s what I have to give the people, good energy and good feelings.

I’s all about finding balance in your life.

As of now they are still very young so that has come in the form of dress up, make believe and singing songs.

I’ve never been to the gym. I do nothing.

You don’t have to have an attitude if you’re famous.

My everyday look has definitely become more low maintenance, but accessories are everything.

Never give up and always believe in yourself.

I wouldn’t say it’s competitive. I think everyone has their time.

It’s wrong for a guy to have no personality, no heart. Because I don’t care about style or money.

I watch that. How does he treat the waiter? How does he treat the coat-check girl? How does he treat the driver?

I don’t like fights. I don’t like aggressive people.

I just knew how to smile.

I missed out on everything. Sometimes on the street I see teenagers hanging out and going to the movies, going to concerts, and I get so jealous.

I lack what the English call character, by which they mean the power to refrain.

Why can’t the English teach their children how to speak?

I am grateful to my father for sending me to school, and that we moved from Somalia to Kenya, where I learned English.

Why can’t the English teach their children how to speak?

English Bohemianism is a curiously unluscious fruit.

Like most of the popular songs are today in the English language that I hear – then it would be much more of a turnoff then if it would allow me to interpret it.

I had thought for years, probably 30 or 40 years, that it would be a lot of fun to try my hand at a classic English mystery novel.

I grew up in a very British family who had been transplanted to Canada, and my grandmother’s house was filled with English books.