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I don't think of myself as a role model for others, but I like to live my life by my own integrity. So, in that sense, I might be a positive influence. I do believe you should get over your insecurities and just try to be the best you can.

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My Life, Own, Role, My Own

Marilyn Monroe and Vivienne Leigh are real icons of mine. In terms of visual culture, they are both so iconic. There weren't any paparazzi shots of them falling out of taxis, so they will always look so incredible.

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Iconic, Out, Leigh, Paparazzi

Life is shining a light through a magnifying glass on me, looking for me to stumble. I think that's my biggest fear.

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Think, Through, Stumble, Shining

As users of the Internet, we all have a role to play in defining what we want it to be.

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Play, Want, Role, Defining

I was of the type who gets bullied rather than the one who does the bullying, which I'm glad about. I'd rather be that than a bully.

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Rather, About, Which, Bully

I paint - I tend more to abstraction - but not as much as I would like to because of time. I would love to do sculpture - I've toyed with the idea of fitting in a sculpture course.

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Love, More, Like, Toyed

As the generalization goes about the art industry, people can be really challenging and thought-provoking in their thinking and questioning the status quo, and it's really important that the status quo can be questioned and that there are people doing that.

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Art, Doing, Goes, Status Quo

Every time I have to try on a wig for work, I get excited about the colour; I've often thought about going for a platinum bob or also raven black, as it looks so great against pale skin. But I always end up being loyal to my red colour.

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Thought, Against, About, Wig

I guess I try and learn all the time from every experience in life, so my thinking is a hybrid of everything. I'd have to attribute some of that to my work in the fashion industry - in some obscure way.

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Work, Learn, Some, Fashion Industry

Production chains, how consumers can drive change: all these things may seem at odds with fashion, but arguably, they're not.

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Chains, Production, May, Odds

It's not that I don't believe in creativity and innovation and new ideas, and the creativity that comes with fashion, which I really respect. But one of my biggest concerns is just how cheap we expect everything to be.

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Innovation, New, Which, New Ideas

If I'm anywhere close to where I can hike or swim, that's my favourite thing to do.

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I Can, Favourite, Anywhere, Hike

The relationship between art and a job is not quite linear, but I really love any and all manifestations of art, really respect any kind of artistic impulse, whether it's paintings and sculptures or really good filmmaking or music. I really see the relationships between these different mediums as very fluid.

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Love, Very, Sculptures, Impulse

When I was younger, I definitely did face anti-ginger prejudice. As a child, all teasing hurts, whether it's because you're fat or a different race or have red hair. I had enough comments from a couple of people to make it a sore point.

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Point, Couple, Had, Sore

I've always gone after fears and tried to stifle them by doing them. It is daunting, but it's more rewarding.

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Doing, Always, Rewarding, Daunting

I think models have a lot less power than they did in the '80s, when there were, like, only 10 supermodels who could dictate the rules, whereas now there's so many, and that changes the power dynamic and makes it a more insecure business.

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Changes, Rules, I Think, Whereas

I usually have a lip balm in my bag and mascara as well. I don't really wear much make-up, but I like mascara because I've got fair colouring.

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Like, Make-Up, Wear, Balm

I have set up several businesses as social businesses, and I am a great believer that the power of business should be used for good.

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Business, Social, Set, Businesses

I part-own a bookshop for some strange coincidence of reasons, and it is one of the best things I part-own in my life, or own in my life. I do not know, it just feels great.

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My Life, Some, Feels, Coincidence

I think a lot of the most interesting work in art and in films are often kind of polarized opinions and affect people in very different ways, which may be less successful commercially, but they elicit a dialogue that's quite interesting.

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I Think, Very, Affect, Polarized

I don't believe there's an afterlife - but I don't believe there's an end to life. Consciousness goes beyond the bounds of your body.

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Believe, Consciousness, Goes, Bounds

In British culture, redheads get teased at school. But I've grown up enough to realize I love my hair.

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Love, British, Redheads, Teased

I have made a living off the way I look, and I have really learnt to accept myself for being unusual.

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Myself, Living, Made, Learnt

I started modeling at 14. It's simple. You respond to what the photographer wants and wear other people's ideas. I got bored with it, though, so I went to university.

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Modeling, Other, Though, Bored

The narrative of so many fairy tales are timeless in so many different cultures, and they have been since the dawn of man. They represent escapism, but they all feature themes that have such poignancy in a modern world.

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Different Cultures, Been, Represent

I'm not sure if it's fair to call it a 'fairy tale,' but I really loved 'Mulan,' the Disney film. It was my favorite. I guess it's not really a fairy tale, but you do get Eddie Murphy as a dragon.

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Fair, Film, Sure, Fairy

It was a scandal when I did French 'Playboy' in 2008, though I was never actually nude in it. I think it's really funny that I'll have a cover of 'Playboy' to show my grandkids.

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Think, I Think, Though, French

Giving triggers social cohesion. It's also the basis for an economy not based on money.

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Money, Social, Based, Triggers

The average Londoner knows just one neighbour. I travel a lot, and I'm always surprised by the strong sense of community in some countries. We've lost something fundamentally human, and we don't even realise it.

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Strong, Average, Some, Strong Sense

The need to protect the environment has emerged as an undeniably important priority for me.

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Environment, Important, Need, Priority

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