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" With modelling, you provide an image that is fake; with acting you have to provide an image that's real. "

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" Why marry? If you're not married, you just leave each other and it's cool. Who needs the paper? To me it means nothing. "

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" I love Parisian hotels. I usually stay in either Le Bristol, which is gorgeous, or Hotel Paris Rivoli, which is very French and feels like a step back in time. I also love the luxury of Waldorf Astoria hotels. "

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" What's interesting is to be sexy but not know it. You'll be in a restaurant, and some girls will walk in and you can tell that they really want to be sexy. It's written on their faces because that's all they want to show. There's a fear that one might not look further. "

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" Having people I love around me - friends and family - is great, but I don't necessarily need a relationship. "

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" If a man can make me laugh and stimulate me intellectually, then I wouldn't mind if he was 4 ft. 8 in. with a huge belly. The only thing that would put me off is bad breath - but even that can be fixed. A bad personality isn't so easy to fix. "

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