Cameron Russell Quotes
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Modeling is one of the few professions where women out-earn men, and that's because we're more valuable objects and ornaments.
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I'm not promoting anything totally unhealthy because I'm not unhealthy. But I am promoting an ideal that's not attainable, and for that I have to feel guilty. I have to assume some blame for that.
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Lately I've been feeling like 50 percent of the great content I read comes from Twitter conversations.
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Once you are a model, you do have to fly a million red-eye flights, and you do have to entertain a different client every single day.
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I do have too many eight-inch heels which I never get to wear.
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Becoming a model was very counter-culture for my background, which is hyper-liberal, academic and feminist.
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When you're looking through a magazine, you'd think every single person's a different person, but every third girl is actually the same girl in a different outfit and makeup.
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Hard work is not why I have been successful as a model.
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You can be anything. You could be the President of the United States or the inventor of the next Internet or a ninja cardio-thoracic surgeon poet, which would be awesome because you would be the first one.
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A ton of little girls I talk to, they want to be actresses or singers or models.
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One of the biggest issues for me is campaign finance reform.
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Mass media wants bright lights. Mass media wants crazy clothes.
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I'm a dork!
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My mum never told me that I was beautiful when I was a kid – and I didn't read magazines or watch MTV, so I had no real consciousness about it all.
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I don't think fashion is evil.
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If I ever had needed to put together a CV, it would be quite short. Like many young people, I'd highlight my desire to work hard.
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When I first lived in a model apartment... It was two bunk beds to a room, and the bathroom was constantly in use. I was bringing in Lucky Charms cereal, and one day an agent put a stop to that. She said, 'You're making all the girls fat.' They took it off our grocery order. That was the most dramatic thing that happened.
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When I was 16, I definitely burned a couple of bridges by saying, 'I won't do this!' I was not diplomatic about it. I came to a fitting and was like, 'I don't wear fur; cancel this show!'
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I've had a few conversations with people who are horrified: who tell me my work is demeaning, is sexist, is negative.
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The rise of the Internet and the camera phone have started to change what stories are accessible.
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Fashion is capitalism, and it will be fixed by what the market demands.
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We can't just pay attention to women who look fantastic in a photograph, because there are a lot of people that have fantastic things to say that don't look like 25-year-old white models.
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Having a couple really great basics makes it easy to dress well every day.
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I've never personally been anorexic.