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" I spent much of my life hiding. "
Kevyn Aucoin
Hiding
Spent
My Life
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" I made a crash landing here on Earth on February 14, 1962, in the Shreveport Catholic Charities Home for un-wed mothers. The infamous Bonnie and Clyde lost their lives just miles from where I was born. Like outlaws ourselves, my birth mother and I were on the run from the day she found out I was part of her. "
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" Beauty is about perception, not about make-up. I think the beginning of all beauty is knowing and liking oneself. You can't put on make-up, or dress yourself, or do you hair with any sort of fun or joy if you're doing it from a position of correction. "
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" I was a regular little boy who also enjoyed things that girls did. "
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" I'm very passionate about what I do. "
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" The faces I see in the modeling industry can get dull. "
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" There are two types of people in the world: people who are passionate about things, and people who've had their passion punched, beaten, or whatever out of them. "
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" I didn't know what gay was. There was no such thing when I was growing up. I knew I had crushes on boys, but I didn't think there was anything wrong with that until I started to hear about it from the other kids in school. "
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" Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain... To feel the freedom that comes from being able to continue to make mistakes and choices - today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but embrace it. "
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Happiness
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" That's why I began doing makeup in the first place: I was hoping that through helping people see the beauty in themselves, I could try and find it in me. "
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Place
" I was absolutely lost in love and life when I did my drawings. Time stood still. "
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Love
Did
" I don't use 'always do this,' 'never say that' and I never give advice because I'm not the end-all, be-all authority. "
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Advice
Say
Never
" Kids threw rocks at me, told me I was ugly and left death threats in my locker. "
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Left
Me
" I'm going to insult a whole industry here, but it seems like TV is for people who can't do film. I'm not talking about actresses; I'm talking about lighting people. Lighting on TV is just so... it's sinful, it really is. "
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" Trying to conceal the fact that I was a gay, effeminate, hyperactive, adopted child with a serious lisp in southern Louisiana would have been like trying to hide Dolly Parton in a string bikini! "
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Gay
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Trying
" When I was growing up, the men in my life were abusive; women were the ones I ran to for comfort. "
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Life
Men
" Soon I realized that if beauty equalled forgiveness, I was never going to be forgiven. "
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Soon
Going
Forgiveness
" I think the responsibility lies with the fashion world as a collective. We have to demand more variety. "
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Fashion
Think
World
" Another thing that's pathetic is this rule that you have to look ugly to get respect as an actress. Jessica Lange had to make herself look really bad to prove that she had amazing talent. "
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Ugly
Talent
Respect
" Beauty has a lot to do with character. "
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Beauty
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Character
" Fear is the most debilitating emotion in the world, and it can keep you from ever truly knowing yourself and others - its adverse effects can no longer be overlooked or underestimated. Fear breeds hatred, and hatred has the power to destroy everything in its path. "
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" It's our hearts and brains that we should exercise more often. You can put on all the makeup you want, but it won't make your soul pretty. "
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" My entire mission in life is to help women take over the world. Not by force (the route so many men have taken since the beginning of time), but with compassion, perseverance, and love. "
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Time
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" Fights with my father were really quite brutal. I would not live his vision. I would not become who he wanted me to be. Everything I did was criticized. I would spend three months drawing something and show him, and he would look up from his paper and just look back down. I got no approval from him for anything I did that was creative. "
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Look
Vision
Me
" Today I see beauty everywhere I go, in every face I see, in every single soul. "
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Face
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" Yes, but everyone is beautiful to someone. "
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Everyone
Beautiful
" I'm not saying that putting on makeup will change the world or even your life, but it can be a first step in learning things about yourself you may never have discovered otherwise. At worst, you could make a big mess and have a good laugh. "
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Good
Learning
Life
" I also have this incredible love for women. "
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Love
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Also
" While traveling around the world, I've had the opportunity to work with every living beauty icon. I've learned to appreciate idiosyncrasy. The fact is, there is really no such thing as 'normal' - everybody's different, and that is the essence of their beauty. "
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" Life is too short to spend hoping that the perfectly arched eyebrow or hottest new lip shade will mask an ugly heart. "
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