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" I was born in London and raised in Rome until I was 4. Then we went back to London, where I went to school. "
Naomi Campbell
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" Anger is a manifestation of a deeper issue... and that, for me, is based on insecurity, self-esteem and loneliness. "
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" 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. "
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" 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.' "
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" My features are completely ethnic. "
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" I like to control everything, and you cannot control everything. You have to at some point say, 'I let go and I'm going to let the cards fall where they fall... For a control freak, it's hard. "
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" I work very hard and I'm worth every cent. "
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" I don't always wear underwear. When I'm in the heat, especially, I can't wear it. Like, if I'm wearing a flower dress, why do I have to wear underwear? "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" I've been offered jobs by companies that supported apartheid many times in the 25 years of my modeling career, but I have never taken one of them. I have to refuse that money, because I'm not going to work against my people. They've suffered enough. "
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Modeling
Enough
Money
" I live my life day by day, and that's how I continue to live it. "
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Live
Continue
My Life
" Patrick Demarchelier was the one who got me my first 'Vogue' cover. It was French 'Vogue' - I think in '87 or '88. I think I was the first black model to be on the cover of French Vogue, which was shocking to me because when I asked them about it, they were like, 'Oh, no. We've never had that before.' "
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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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Charity
Fashion
Hurricane
" Well, when I started modeling in the mid-'80s, the girls who did shows did shows, and the girls who did magazines did magazines. That's what was understood. "
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Who
" Yes, I did and a lot of my friends who are in the same program as I were very much supportive, and the most important thing they said to me is do not let this interfere with what you have to do in taking car of yourself. That was the most important thing. "
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Car
Friends
Me
" After Versace was murdered, the first person to call me was Mandela. "
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First
Versace
Me
" I have no regrets. I've got my health. "
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Got
Regrets
Health
" 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. "
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Dealt
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Back
" The worst was when my skirt fell down to my ankles, but I had on thick tights underneath. "
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Worst
Had
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" 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. "
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Truth
Face
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" What I like about gyrotonics is you feel like you really elongated yourself for the day... As we all get older, everything changes and moves, and there's natural ways to exercise. I think it's important, and I think it's something that can help keep things in place. "
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Place
Help
Yourself
" There is only going to be one Kate Moss. Kate is an icon. "
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Moss
Icon
Kate
" I cannot drink or do anything that changes the mind. "
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Anything
Changes
Cannot
" I make a lot of money and I'm worth every cent. "
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Money
Lot
Every
" Feeling passionate about something doesn't mean you have to be angry. "
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" I love mentoring young girls. I've always been like that. "
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Love
" Everyone has a temper. A temper is an emotion. "
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Temper
Everyone
Emotion
" What makes a person is the ability to look at themselves and deal with their own lives. "
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Ability
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Person
" 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. "
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