Amber Valletta Quotes

As a native Oklahoman, I'm dismayed by what fossil fuel pollution has done to the Sooner State.

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If I could give my younger self some advice at that time, I'd tell her to enjoy the ride and don't be afraid to ask questions. I was quite responsible, uptight, and worried - I'd tell myself to chill out.

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I think eyebrows are the symmetry of the face. If they're not balanced and brushed up in the right way, your face looks kind of messy.

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Design shouldn't have to take a backseat to sustainability and making things responsibly.

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Today, you can gain a bunch of followers doing a dance in a cute bikini, and suddenly, you're a superstar. Or you could just be a beautiful girl posting pictures of yourself and get discovered that way.

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Without the EPA and the national pollution safeguards it enforces, more children would have asthma. Our water would be less safe. More chemicals would poison our bodies. And more people would die prematurely from respiratory diseases and heart attacks.

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I always feel safe with a woman photographer. I feel that no matter how they interpret something, they understand all sides of it because they are women, and women are complex creatures.

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At every juncture as Oklahoma's attorney general, Scott Pruitt has consistently chosen to undermine and attack environmental safeguards - not to defend them.

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Everybody's constantly growing. In your twenties, you can learn a lot, and you can be very smart and clever and savvy. Especially these kids today. They seem like they have it all together. But let's talk to them again when they're 40 years old and see really who they are. Is it who they thought they were at 25?

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Some fast fashion companies do amazing environmentally friendly capsule collections, but wouldn't it be great if one of these companies just turned around and said everything they produced was?

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Sometimes it feels like it hurts when you make a big purchase, so I really believe that the more expensive things should be gems that you keep in your closet, not trends.

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My fear is that we are losing sight of how much we depend on the EPA to protect not just our environment but the people who live in it.

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Did you notice what happened when digital photography arrived? Suddenly there were four times as many people on set for a shoot! It used to be a photographer, a couple of photo assistants, stylist and a fashion assistant, hair and make-up and that was about it.

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My son doesn't really want to model as a career, so I am not worried about him entering into the industry.

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Fashion has come a long way to embrace different body shapes, ethnicities, even looks. I find it an exciting time culturally for these reasons. Women are really coming into their own.

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I guess you can be a supermodel today just by building followers. You don't necessarily have to do the work of going to Milan and then to Paris or New York, trying to find the right photographer, artist, or designer to see you.

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I rented a house in Favignana, off the coast of Sicily, in the mid or late '90s. There was a revolving door of visiting friends and family - we played games, painted our faces, went swimming naked, cooked big meals, rode around on motorini, and had great cappuccinos.

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It's essential to feel beautiful to oneself. Not in an egotistical way, but in a self-loving way.

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Art is for entertainment purposes, but it's also to reflect our dreams, our hopes, the present, the future the past - whether it's good or bad.

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I'm not interested in making clothes that are not accessible.

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I have an incredible sense of direction, but London is confusing. It's a circle, but then it stops being a circle.

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I don't really want to control anyone, to be honest.

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I do say no to things that I think are completely gratuitous.

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Clothing isn't disposable.

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I eat really clean and really simple: brown rice, a quinoa bowl, grilled fish, veggies, a big salad.

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I once went to Alba, Italy, during their white truffle festival, and I was like, 'Just leave me here!'

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If you can be funny, it means you're intelligent. Your brain is working fast.

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I know that some of the spiritual beliefs that I have are that if I come from a place of love, and I try to get out of my ego and my desire to want more and be selfish in any shape or form, then whatever I'm doing is not good.

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We are what we see. We are products of our surroundings.

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It is in the mind and the heart where we meet. It's not the body-the body will change.

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If a guy ever walks into a restaurant on a date wearing mandals, you need to leave immediately. It's just not necessary.

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Modeling isn't boring.

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I love modeling, and I missed fashion and my friends and family in fashion and the creativity that I'm able to express through it. I didn't feel I was getting enough of that through my acting.

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With age comes wisdom and a high sex drive. And the wisdom to enjoy it.

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Speaking up for the truth isn't always easy. It takes courage, but it's necessary.

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No one wants to wear clothes that were made from someone's blood.

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I've gotten out of bed a lot of days for a lot less than $10,000.

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There is nothing wrong with fashion - it should be a beautiful expression of who we are.

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