The holidays are a time to – not quite play it safe – but play it classic. You don’t want to be the girl in a head-to-toe sequin look, where you look like you should be an ornament on the tree.
MEGHAN MARKLEI had always been the theater nerd at Northwestern University. I knew I wanted to do acting, but I hated the idea of being this cliche – a girl from L.A. who decides to be an actress.
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I think you have to make time for yourself so that work doesn’t become the end-all be-all.
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My dad’s a lighting director. Growing up in Hollywood, I was around the entertainment industry all the time. I knew I’d end up in show business in some capacity, eventually.
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I’m really big on day dates. If you go for a stroll, have a picnic or lunch with a glass of wine – it doesn’t get better than that.
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If you have an Ina Garten-level roasted-chicken recipe, it’s a game changer. I bring that to dinner parties and make a lot of friends.
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For work, I wear art; in real life, I wear clothes.
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Another solid run through Central Park. Admittedly, six miles turns out to be a bad idea after a full day in heels!
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I went to an all-girls’ Catholic school for, like, six years during the time when kids actually had handwriting class. I’ve always had a propensity for getting the cursive down pretty well.
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Who you are as a person will only be amplified once you are ‘famous,’ so if you had a good heart, then I would imagine you’ll have the same good heart but the means to do even more with it.
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Catty is not cool. I can’t think of anything less becoming than a man who talks about people behind their backs.
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I can’t stand it when men are snarky.
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I do think there’s some value to really throwing yourself into food and embracing where it comes from.
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Reflecting on where I came from helps me to appreciate and balance what I have now.
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I grew up in L.A. in a school that was diverse, but it was not really integrated, so I didn’t ever fully fit in with the black girls or the white girls or the Latina girls.
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Be able to delegate, because there are some things that you just can’t do by yourself.
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My mother was a free-spirited clinical therapist, and I had the most hard-working father, a television lighting director by trade. My mum raised me to be a global citizen, with eyes open to sometimes harsh realities.
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