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" People are thrown off by someone who looks feminine, but is also strong. It's not that pretty girls aren't smart, it's that women aren't strong. "

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" Where is it written that a smart woman can't also be stacked? "

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" I was the first Indian model to have a career in Paris, Milan and New York. "

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" I'm an immigrant kid who came to America from India when I was very young and grew up in New York City with a single mom and really was influenced by all of those immigrant cultures bumping up against each other. "

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