Paulina Porizkova Quotes
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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When I was about four, people used to walk up to my mom and say I should be in commercials.
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I uplift people and see the good in a bad situation. The worst is I'm very critical of myself. If I do a performance, I watch it 100 times afterwards and pick it apart.
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I am someone who tweets about what I have for breakfast, what I have for lunch, what I have for dinner, and for 99.99999 percent of the world, it's useless. It's meaningless. But for my mother, she loves it.
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Actor's life is very long.
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Your goal in an online dating profile and in your first message to somebody is to strike up a conversation.
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I think it was one of the better meetings that I've had with those guys, because I was honestly able to say everything I wanted to say, and I pretty much aired out the dirty laundry. So from that point on, I thought all of that was behind us.
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I believe that my parents did wonderful things for us.
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I didn't know what it was not to work hard as I grew up.
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Carrie-Anne Moss is awesome. I am just going to put that out there.
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None of the kids in the neighborhood had dogs. My dad walked in that Labrador, and we started running together and rolling around together like we found each other after years apart. And then, suddenly, some of the other people in the neighborhood started getting dogs, too.
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In Iraq, many of my female friends were architects and professionals with a lot of power during the 1980s while all the men were at war in Iran.
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I've always been happy with my body.
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Be yourself is about the worst advice you can give to some people.
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We always hear from newspapers that while people understand the environmental challenge, they are unwilling to stomach the solutions. The trouble is, we only ever hear about the solutions from the media, and for whatever reason, they are almost always caricatured beyond recognition. If there's no appetite for green, it's not surprising.
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Stay calm and aggressive.
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I started off in comedy, but that's just where I got my work. I've always been an actor.
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My grandma passed in '78, and that's the year I started recording. It's also the year that my dad retired from his career. So it's funny how torches get passed on, and you feel a responsibility to be connected to the music that they did and try to carry it on in your own way.
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You have to let it all hang out, let go of the ideas that were more comfortable and embrace some of the sadness in your life.
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When you're filming, you work 19-hour days and you know more about what's going on with your crew and co-workers than you do with your husband. You're away, you miss things. It's taxing. Relationships fail because of it.
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I just think it's sad that the main places in our culture that we designate to meet new people are bars and nightclubs.
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The French and the British are such good enemies that they can't resist being friends.
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I photographed Alek Wek. She was amazing, and nobody knew about her then. It was a really strong photograph of her.
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Do you think we choose the times into which we are born? Or do we fit the times we are born into?
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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.
