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A smile costs about $240.
For life to be meaningful, you must have a challenge.
People are hungry for stories of faith. People are hungry for hope.
I have a home in Salt Lake, and I have a home in Malibu, at the beach.
Pausing between stimulus and response allows you to show up in your life.
My accent gets more pronounced when I've been talking to people from Derry.
It is tradition in Ireland that you're given money for your first communion.
I lost my mother when I was very young, and my father when I was in college.
I also know how to ask people for money and I have no shame about doing that.
I have morning prayers and a nighttime reflection. I also read the Bible daily.
I lost both my parents young - but I have felt their presence throughout my life.
I am inspired by seeing kindness in others. It touches me and reminds me to be kind as well.
What is free time? I'm a single mother. My free moments are filled with loving my little girl.
If I can steal away and read something other than what I have to for my work, it's restorative.
I'm the youngest of six children; both of my sisters are housewives and they each have four kids.
When I was in high school, I thought I might be an artist. I was very good at drawing and painting.
If you have donated, these children may never know your name, but they will never forget your kindness.
I tell about some of the female characters from the Bible so girls can be inspired and empowered and uplifted.
I grew up in a house full of faith, and my mother died when I was a little girl, and I found comfort in my faith.
Over the years, I've found myself wishing sometimes my angel would show up. I could use a little uplift, a little reminder.
'A.D.' will focus on life after the crucifixion and the dangers that the disciples faced in the aftermath of Jesus' resurrection.
One of my pet peeves about biblical epics was that the characters' costumes always looked like they're just out of the dry cleaners.
Catholics Come Home inspires each of us to share God’s love with others, in order to help change the world for the better, for eternity!
My husband hailed from Dagenham; he's an Essex boy. Me myself, I come from Derry City in the northwest of Ireland, so we love to get back.
My dad used to sit me on his knee and read from the Bible to us. We were a praying family. Ours was a family of love and a family of prayer.
I think we all do have a guardian angel. I believe they work through us all the time, when we are thoughtful and good and kind to each other.
If I were to look back at my career, I think my greatest achievement is very simple. I've been able to make choices where I could glorify God.
I have loved Jesus my whole life, and it has been such a privilege for me. To be able to marry my work and God together has been such a blessing.
'Touched by an Angel' started my calling to be the messenger, and on a weekly basis, I was able to deliver the message of God's love to the world.
I live a life of gratitude for the abundance of love that I have and that 'Touched by An Angel' still has an impact that fans are still accessing.
Between stimulus and response, there is a space, and when you take time to pray or make a cuppa, you don't have to live in reaction to a situation.
I have the soul of a singer and do splendidly in the shower but the world will never hear it. Basically, I'm the only Irish person who can't carry a tune.
'The Dovekeepers' is a fantastic novel written by Alice Hoffman; it was a bestselling novel, and I fell in love with the book and bought the rights to it.
People come together with their families to celebrate Easter. What better way to celebrate than to spend a few hours going on the journey of Christ's life.
I've played an angel on 'Touched by an Angel,' bringing the message of God's love. It was such a privilege for me as a person of faith to deliver the message.
I think Operation Smile is in more than 22 countries, mostly Third World. It just happened that my schedule opened up at the time they were heading to Vietnam.
Individual stories from the Bible had been made into movies, but no one had taken on the arc of the Bible story as one meta-narrative from Genesis to Revelation.
This CD became something of a personal journey for me. The tone of the whole CD is uplifting and inspirational. It's an upper. We have enough downers in the world.
We were the laughingstock of that first season... It was with great relish several years later that I received a TV Guide award for favorite actress on television.
I have always had a deep connection with my faith, and I was fortunate to have been brought up in a Christian environment. My faith is a very important part of who I am.
I grew up in Ireland, and the ocean was never more than an arm's length away. As lovely as the mountains are and as friendly as the people of Utah are, I feel a bit landlocked here.
I was reading through endless junk scripts that were being sent my way. Typically the roles were to play his wife or his girlfriend - leading roles for women were few and far between.
Jessica Simpson is the youth ambassador for Operation Smile, and an episode of The Apprentice featured a team managing a charity concert she put on. Donald Trump came on stage and pledged a donation.
In the case of 'The Bible' series and now 'Son of God,' it has been a combination of what I love to do and what I believe. To be able to do that with the person I love has just really been a blessing.
Entire families are attending 'Son of God' together and sharing it with their own kids. Parents are using the film as a conversation starter to help bring the story of Jesus to life for their children.
Season number seven! It's been so exciting for us. When we first began, we were like the little train that could... and we did! We're terribly excited! It will be an interesting season for us, I think.
I'd love to do some bedtime stories for kids or that kind of thing. But with the demands of the shooting schedule and balancing the demands of being a single mother, it's a wonder you can squeeze in anything.
For many years, when I was starring on 'Touched by an Angel,' I produced on a number of television movies for CBS. I have always enjoyed the aspect of bringing something together and multitasking in that way.
Extraordinarily, I was up in the cemetery in Derry City, and I had a red cape on with a fur hood as a little girl, when a gun battle broke out between the IRA and the British Army, and I got caught in the crossfire.
There's an assumption in many of these cultures that these children are mentally retarded, when in fact they're not at all. I saw how the operation affects the child, as well as the child's family and often the village.