Aeriel Miranda
'Pretty Little Liars,' you know, it's a teen show that grew to be something bigger. I think you had girls from ages 7 to, like, 20 watching the show, and that was the predominant audience. Then it grew to be for girls, boys, men, women, people who are 7 to 35. I think that's crazy.Collection: Teen
For me, as an actor, going from TV to film was interesting because TV and film are two very different things.
I actually prefer film to TV, but I don't know why. I think there's just a different energy.
I'm becoming more and more of a social media participant, so of course I can always be found everywhere from Twitter to Insta to Facebook.
The telling of a good story, especially one that is real and true, is always exciting.Collection: Real
Money is important yes, but not the most important. I don't need money to smile or breathe. I would still be breathing if all my money disappeared tomorrow.Collection: Breathing
I come from a huge family and out of all 34 of my immediate family members, my heavier influences were women. Between my grandmothers, aunts, older female cousins, and of course my mother, I was pretty much predominantly raised by women, as they make up most of my family anyway.Collection: Mother
I surround myself with strong willed, courageous personalities, because I've got to be coached by the best.Collection: Strong
My friends are me and in essence better than me, they help me be better even when they don't know it.Collection: Essence
Actors don't act, we're just being in a different circumstance and scenario.Collection: Different
I feel blessed to have had the accumulation of life experiences that I've had, life experience just adds to the depths of a persons richness, as with acting!Collection: Blessed
I love to love. However, you won't see anybody walking the red carpet with me until I'm married.Collection: Red
I soak up personalities and energy. I can identify with anything because truthfully everything that makes up the world is characterized in some way in my family I feel, so my empathy is strong for mankind in general.Collection: Strong
I acknowledge my beauty and my flaws, I do my best to keep it one hundred with the woman in the mirror so making friends is actually easy.Collection: Mirrors
I think friends are an extension of you and I always say, check out a persons five immediate friends and you'll know everything about them.Collection: Thinking
My friends are a crayola box. They highlight different colors of my being, representing different aspects of my personalty, I've noticed.Collection: Color
I just simply believe in having purposeful relations, period. That's what its about at the end of the day. However, I do appreciate people that are individualistic, mainly because I'm an impressionable soul and my friends become my big sisters and brothers in a way.Collection: Brother
All of my close friends have been in my life for years. My best friends are all people I met in grade school, going back as far as 3rd grade.Collection: School
I admire many women that have come before me, heavy influencers such as Oprah, such as Beyoncé, and I'm witnessing the fruit of their work and experiencing their legacy now and they're not even close to the finish line.Collection: Legacy
Life would continue to exist and grow. Cause and effect still exist even where there is no time.Collection: Causes
My hero among heroes is my grandmother, she's the epitome of strength and I try to mock that strength all the time. She's a beast.Collection: Hero
My sister is 4 years older than me and I've always looked up to her, she was the girl I always wanted to be.Collection: Girl
Everyone has a different route to success, recognition, and peace. Don't be afraid to move instinctually.Collection: Moving
Even if it's something so simple as filling myself up with uplifting meditation so it's easier to spread kindness and love by the time I walk out my door and enter the world. I get a kick out of making a strangers day.Collection: Uplifting
I do everything I can on a daily basis just so I can have something to give back to the world.Collection: Giving
I don't admire how much a person has, I admire what a person does with what they have and I think that defines you most.Collection: Thinking
The difference lies in the intention behind wanting money. Your reasons for why you want to create more money is typically why you're ambitious to get it. You're either genuinely ambitious or selfishly hungry.Collection: Lying
I refuse to accept the idea that money is evil. People make things evil and negative. Some people love what money can do and therefore would do anything to get it, they love the power, they chase it, while others understand what money can do, therefore they do what's in their hearts, they understand the influence and attract it.Collection: Heart
People automatically assume and expect that every moment and every bit of personal data should be broadcasted on social media, especially as it relates to them - and thats just not cuttin' it for me. If you can make it through the age of social media and come out with the same friends and lover, kudos!Collection: Media
When the passion isn't there, the drive isn't there and it just doesn't last for me.Collection: Passion
If you're not broadcasting what people feel is their truth as it relates to you, well that becomes a problem. If your not broadcasting how much you love your boyfriend or husband via social media, problems occur in the home and I really think this is happening more than we acknowledge.Collection: Husband
I think I unknowingly seek people who are better than me in the sense of strength and wisdom. It's like I've got to know and trust that you have the answers and that you can carry me if needed.Collection: Thinking
All of my friends are independent in thought, that's important.Collection: Independent
People want everything quick and now. We live in the age of social media and hyper digital. Tweets are published in less than a second, Safari pages load in less than three seconds.Collection: Media
Social media is driving the culture, it drives peoples minds literally.Collection: Media
You're sort of forced to include this aspect of culture into your life whether it be for social reasons or business purposes.Collection: Culture
You're not surviving if you're not on social media, period.Collection: Media
You're living in a matrix that's driven by social media. It's become glorified. You're suppose to be what you portray on social media, thats the perception.Collection: Media
Your life and everything about your world should be represented on your social media accounts, and everybody feels that way from family to friends to boyfriends and girlfriends.Collection: Girlfriend
I've had friends get mad at me for not posting what they think I should post on Instagram on behalf of them or our relation. I've had people question my "integrity" based off of something I didn't post on social media, the list goes on. It's mind boggling.Collection: Integrity
You just have to be careful because social media can begin to affect personal things such as relationships, just to pin point. People have become so entitled as it relates to social media.Collection: Media
I have a unique ability to mock everything. I'm a sponge by nature, thats what my environment made me.Collection: Unique
My ability to adapt has always stood out. I've been immersed in many worlds and have had the influence of many things in my upbringing so I'm familiar with so many styles of living, so many characters, so many life paths and its just easy to simulate for me.Collection: Character
I'm reminded everyday that I was born to do great things, I believe that and when it's my time I shall.Collection: Believe
I think it's really important to teach our children about their lineage and it especially makes a difference if you share that information while they're young.Collection: Children
My family has always had Cape Verdean pride but I don't think it was something the kids in the family necessarily understood. However, I was very conscious of the fact that both sides of my family were drastically different and my aunts, cousins, and uncles varied in different shades of brown.Collection: Cousin
Most people have no idea what Cabo Verde is or even where it is to mention, so I definitely want to make people aware of this beautiful culture.Collection: Beautiful
It's always funny to me when people meet me. They really think I'm from the East coast off top. When they get to talkin' to me, they go "Oh no, she's sooooo Southern"Collection: Thinking
I always say that you are who you are and you can't hide it.Collection: Who You Are
I was born and raised in Dallas, Texas and seasonally lived in New Orleans and Boston. Given that this was all at a tender age, I imagine I was very impressionable. I was a kid that was always moving, city to city, school to school. I adapted easily wherever I was, I knew how to blend.Collection: Moving