Paulina Porizkova Quotes
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I remember when I first started modeling, and I would read interviews with people. Then I would see them, and they would always say something entirely different to a crowd of people than they would say privately. I always found that really offensive.
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I think every model has times when they get obnoxious and crazy. You all of a sudden realize you are young and beautiful and you have money, and you just kind of go nutty for awhile.
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I will continue to be intelligent, I vowed, no matter how beautiful I become.
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When I model I pretty much go blank. You can't think too much or it doesn't work.
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I wash my hair once a week. If it gets stinky in between, I just dry-shampoo it.
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I'm definitely a narcissist, and TV is fabulous for narcissists.
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I've always hated modeling. It's superficial and fake, and I hate to have to care about what I look like. I get a pimple and freak. The whole business is all about selling beautiful girls' faces and bodies, so how can there be anything intelligent or nice about that except for the girl who makes money?
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If you have really pretty skin, then you can pretty much stick on mascara and a lip cream and look great.
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At 52 and unaltered, people tell me I look good for my age. This is not the same as being told you're beautiful.
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I always hear, 'Oh, she's really beautiful.' I'd die to hear, 'Oh, she's really smart.' I'm not as dumb as I look.
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I think I had my first anxiety attack at the age of 10. Then it sort of varied between being so bad that I barely dared to go out to periods where it almost vanished. It's sort of like an ebb and flow thing.
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Beauty, unlike the rest of the gifts handed out at birth, does not require dedication, patience and hard work to pay off. But it's also the only gift that does not keep on giving.
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I'm against all of us looking homogenous, where there's only one kind of a template of a person.
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My boyfriend thinks I lost my true calling to be a librarian.
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People want you to be beautiful and shut up. When I paint or play music, they'd rather not know about that.
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The real bummer of fame is that at some point you're bound to get demoted.
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After I finished working for Estee Lauder, I stopped being a professional model. I decided to never again advertise something that I don't actually use. I only sign up for things that I truly believe in.
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Nothing ages as poorly as a beautiful woman's ego.
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When you have used your beauty to get around, it's like having extra cash in your back pocket. I was so used to walking down the street and having the young guys passing by at least give me a flicker of a look. But once you're over 40, you become invisible. You're a brick in the building, and it's sad.
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Modeling sucks.
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I used to think the word 'feminist' reeked of insecurity. A woman who needed to state that she was equal to a man might as well be shouting that she was smart or brave. If you were, you wouldn't need to say it.
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Reading is, hands-down, my favorite activity.
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Christy Turlington, Naomi Campbell, and Linda Evangelista - those models got bunched together. I was always asked to be bunched in there, but I didn't want to be part of the herd. The only one I really had a problem with, though, was Naomi.
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I was fired by 'America's Next Top Model' on my birthday.