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" I started this charity, Fashion for Relief, in 2005, after Hurricane Katrina happened. New Orleans was actually the first place I visited in the United States. It was one of my first big jobs, a shoot for British 'Elle.' It was April 14, 1986. "

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" I loved watching so many of the great designers I've worked with do what they do. That's why I'm still loyal to the designers that I've known since I was 16. "

Naomi Campbell

Watching

Many

Loyal

" Feeling passionate about something doesn't mean you have to be angry. "

" I love England, especially the food. There's nothing I like more than a lovely bowl of pasta. "

" I don't think I was born beautiful. I just think I was born me. "

Naomi Campbell

Born

Think

" I'm not angry. And I don't like the thing of the 'angry black woman,' either. "

Naomi Campbell

Woman

Thing

" I have no regrets. I've got my health. "

" I've been doing my job well for 17 years. People must see something in me. Otherwise, I'd be over and out. "

" Everyone has a temper. A temper is an emotion. "

" I feel very responsible for young models of colour. They come to me and tell me they're not getting jobs, and I do what I can to speak up for them. "

Naomi Campbell

Feel

Speak

" Look, you have to make mistakes. That's how you learn and that's how the world works. "

" I've always been very shy of doing television. I've always said 'no.' Not to be disrespectful to anyone - I didn't want to say 'yes' and then let people down. "

" I never diet. I smoke. I drink now and then. I never work out. "

" When I first got Yves Saint Laurent Couture, I didn't know how to take off a cape. I would ask Katoucha and Dalma - the real divas of the runway - 'Can you show me?' I've never been afraid to ask for help. "

Naomi Campbell

Afraid

Help

" I'm always trying to do the impossible to please people. It comes from not being secure in myself and not looking at the things within I have to fix. Sometimes you keep going because you don't want to face the truth. "

" There is only going to be one Kate Moss. Kate is an icon. "

" What makes a person is the ability to look at themselves and deal with their own lives. "

" I would ask my mother to show me how to walk - and she did show me. That's why I think it's funny when people say, 'Did so-and-so teach you how to walk?' And I always say, 'You must be talking about my mother, because it was my mother who taught me how to walk.' "

Naomi Campbell

People

Think

" It's a new challenge to see how people can change your look. I like words like transformation, reinvention, and chameleon. Because one word I don't like is predictable. "

" Well, in brief, I was discovered by a lady called Beth Boldt. She had also been a model. She used to take pictures of the girls she found, and she took a picture of me one day in my school uniform, and it all kind of started from there. "

Naomi Campbell

Picture

Lady

" I was born in London and raised in Rome until I was 4. Then we went back to London, where I went to school. "

" I'm very observant and very instinctive. In life, you have to have the vulnerability to accept when you are to blame. And I do have that, and I am open enough to say it. "

" The chocolate and crisps come in at times. You have to allow the little things that make you happy. I'm not extreme about what I eat. "

" I live my life day by day, and that's how I continue to live it. "

" After Versace was murdered, the first person to call me was Mandela. "

Naomi Campbell

First

Versace

" I love mentoring young girls. I've always been like that. "

" When I started out modeling, there weren't casting directors and there weren't stylists, so you just dealt directly with the designer. We were all much closer back then. "

" I don't worry about a number. I'm fine with aging. "

" Am I bossy? Absolutely. I don't like to lose, and if I'm told 'no,' then I find another way to get my 'yes.' But I'm a loyal person. "

" I'm not set on a pedestal where I think I'm too high and mighty. "

" I make a lot of money, but I don't want to talk about that. "