Rila Fukushima Quotes
I had been taking acting classes on and off while I was modeling, so I always had a dream to be in a film.
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By 17, I was modeling and had bought myself a flat. I've always tried to be self-sufficient.
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When I started modeling, they tried to pay black models less than they paid Caucasian models. I turned down those jobs because I knew what I was worth.
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Even after they had stopped modeling for Playboy and had settled down with other men to raise families of their own, Hugh Hefner still considered them his women, and in the bound volumes of his magazine he would always possess them.
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I love hot yoga. I go to a sculpt class with weights. That's really good for the core and it's obviously super hot. I love cardio bar. I'm not a big gym fan, so I like to go to classes.
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When I first started modeling, they used to bleach my eyebrows all the time.
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I stopped modeling so I could go to drama school at the William Esper Studio. It's Meisner.
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I work hard, but my modeling career gives my views undeserved attention.
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I started modeling when I was 13 or 14, I think.
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This modeling thing, it's pretty easy, but actually it's also really tough.
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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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Classes? Categories? Was that what we had come to?
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Modeling is a way for me to continue with my sport, the hours are flexible and you can earn good money through photographic modeling and the catwalk.
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The secret to modeling is not being perfect. What one needs is a face that people can identify in a second. You have to be given what’s needed by nature, and what’s needed is to bring something new.
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The ignorant classes are the dangerous classes.
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Let no one try to justify the glaring difference between the classes and the masses, the prince and the pauper, by saying that the former need more.
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The more I see of the moneyed classes, the more I understand the guillotine.
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Modeling wasn't the thing that was going to define me in any way; it was just a way to make a lot of money.
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The minute I dropped out I could stop taking the required classes that didn't interest me, and begin dropping in on the ones that looked interesting.
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I've thought about how it will make things easier for you. But I can't do that because more than my emotions, the future of Fresh Men is more important. Because more than my pride, my friends are more precious.
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In some tiny, tiny way I am part of history, but I am also able to help people.
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Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.
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I think, in the early years, my biggest influences would have been... Daft Punk was a huge one for me, I bought their main record when I was nine; at a young age, I was into music. The Prodigy, Gorillaz were big ones.
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Being a dancer I've got the idea that through discipline and hard work, you can develop the ability to be in a different dimension within seconds. You can be vomiting, you can detest who you are, detest the world, detest every single thing, and the next moment you are in the light and you glow. You forget everything, and you are just flying. When you're onstage, you are someone else. Beyoncé is very conscious of this. She said to me, "I'm another person when I'm onstage." And I said, "Oh yes, you are! You are an animal when you are onstage. You are a stage animal."
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I had been taking acting classes on and off while I was modeling, so I always had a dream to be in a film.
