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" I love yoga. I don't do it as much as I'd like to, but I feel wonderful when I do. "
Lily Cole
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Yoga
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" I don't believe there's an afterlife - but I don't believe there's an end to life. Consciousness goes beyond the bounds of your body. "
Lily Cole
Life
Body
End
" I love modeling but also see it as a platform for the million other things I want to achieve and create in life. "
Lily Cole
Modeling
Achieve
Create
" Marilyn Monroe and Vivienne Leigh are real icons of mine. In terms of visual culture, they are both so iconic. There weren't any paparazzi shots of them falling out of taxis, so they will always look so incredible. "
Lily Cole
Always
Real
Culture
" I'm not against people buying clothes; I think clothes are wonderful, and I'm very materialistic myself - but there's a way of finding a compromise. I just think we can buy less and pay more, to make sure people aren't being exploited. "
Lily Cole
Finding
Clothes
People
" The relationship between art and a job is not quite linear, but I really love any and all manifestations of art, really respect any kind of artistic impulse, whether it's paintings and sculptures or really good filmmaking or music. I really see the relationships between these different mediums as very fluid. "
Lily Cole
Good
Relationship
Respect
" The need to protect the environment has emerged as an undeniably important priority for me. "
Lily Cole
Need
Environment
Important
" As the generalization goes about the art industry, people can be really challenging and thought-provoking in their thinking and questioning the status quo, and it's really important that the status quo can be questioned and that there are people doing that. "
Lily Cole
Thinking
Art
Doing
" People do make assumptions about models. That's their issue, not mine. It doesn't bother me because I'm comfortable enough in my own skin - I know who I am. "
Lily Cole
Know
Skin
I Am
" It's not that I don't believe in creativity and innovation and new ideas, and the creativity that comes with fashion, which I really respect. But one of my biggest concerns is just how cheap we expect everything to be. "
Lily Cole
Innovation
Respect
Ideas
" Production chains, how consumers can drive change: all these things may seem at odds with fashion, but arguably, they're not. "
Lily Cole
Odds
Chains
Change
" I have made a living off the way I look, and I have really learnt to accept myself for being unusual. "
Lily Cole
Accept
Way
Off
" Giving triggers social cohesion. It's also the basis for an economy not based on money. "
Lily Cole
Giving
Economy
Money
" Talent is crucial. It needs to be driven by motivation, but blind ambition isn't the key. "
Lily Cole
Key
Blind
Ambition
" I part-own a bookshop for some strange coincidence of reasons, and it is one of the best things I part-own in my life, or own in my life. I do not know, it just feels great. "
Lily Cole
My Life
Know
Great
" As users of the Internet, we all have a role to play in defining what we want it to be. "
Lily Cole
Play
Defining
Internet
" Acting is something I've done since I was six years old, performing for my mum and my family in the living room, and I do it because my heart's in it. "
Lily Cole
Heart
Done
Family
" There is a degree of role-playing in modeling, for sure, and you're also in a high-profile job - there are lots of similarities for sure. But when I'm acting, I've got to try and be present, and I've got to be emotionally committed to a character, both physically and intellectually. "
Lily Cole
You
Acting
Character
" Don't overpluck your eyebrows. A make-up artist told me this once, and I've always remembered it. "
Lily Cole
Remembered
Always
Artist
" There are so many great, great vintage clothes to find; there's a whole territory unexplored there. "
Lily Cole
Many
Clothes
Vintage
" In British culture, redheads get teased at school. But I've grown up enough to realize I love my hair. "
Lily Cole
Culture
Hair
Love
" If I'm anywhere close to where I can hike or swim, that's my favourite thing to do. "
Lily Cole
Close
I Can
Swim
" There's an inherent contradiction between appreciating the beauty of clothes and creativity and individuality, and the waste around the ideas of trends and seasons. "
Lily Cole
Seasons
Creativity
Ideas
" I think a lot of the most interesting work in art and in films are often kind of polarized opinions and affect people in very different ways, which may be less successful commercially, but they elicit a dialogue that's quite interesting. "
Lily Cole
Art
Interesting
Work
" I found going to school when I was modeling very grounding. It's really kept my perspective on bigger things in my life. "
Lily Cole
Life
Perspective
School
" I guess I try and learn all the time from every experience in life, so my thinking is a hybrid of everything. I'd have to attribute some of that to my work in the fashion industry - in some obscure way. "
Lily Cole
Time
Work
Experience
" I always used to love couture because it was more theatrical than the runways. The runways always felt more like part of the machine. "
Lily Cole
Used
Always
Because
" I think models have a lot less power than they did in the '80s, when there were, like, only 10 supermodels who could dictate the rules, whereas now there's so many, and that changes the power dynamic and makes it a more insecure business. "
Lily Cole
Changes
Power
Rules
" I was like most teenagers. I wanted to look more conventional - you know, to just be the pretty girl in school. "
Lily Cole
Girl
Know
Look
" I'm just a lipgloss, blush and mascara kind of girl. I like playing with a bright lipstick or a heavy eye... But not together! "
Lily Cole
Girl
Eye
Together
" I think the media are so hypocritical a lot of the time in the way they chastise something just so that they can print it again. "
Lily Cole
Time
Way
Just