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I work very hard and I'm worth every cent.

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Work, Hard, Very, Cent

I make a lot of money and I'm worth every cent.

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Money, Lot, Make, Cent

It's a new challenge to see how people can change your look. I like words like transformation, reinvention, and chameleon. Because one word I don't like is predictable.

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New, Chameleon, Like, Transformation

Am I bossy? Absolutely. I don't like to lose, and if I'm told 'no,' then I find another way to get my 'yes.' But I'm a loyal person.

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Lose, Yes, Like, Another Way

I never diet. I smoke. I drink now and then. I never work out.

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Work, Diet, Never, Now And Then

I like the men to wear the pants. I don't want to wear the pants. I like men who know what they want, know what they're doing, make their own decisions... As much as I like to be the controller, it's not in my best interest.

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Doing, Like, Pants, Decisions

I don't always wear underwear. When I'm in the heat, especially, I can't wear it. Like, if I'm wearing a flower dress, why do I have to wear underwear?

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Heat, Dress, Always, Flower

When I started out modeling, there weren't casting directors and there weren't stylists, so you just dealt directly with the designer. We were all much closer back then.

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Modeling, Back, Directors, Casting

I'm not set on a pedestal where I think I'm too high and mighty.

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Think, High, Pedestal, Mighty

Patrick Demarchelier was the one who got me my first 'Vogue' cover. It was French 'Vogue' - I think in '87 or '88. I think I was the first black model to be on the cover of French Vogue, which was shocking to me because when I asked them about it, they were like, 'Oh, no. We've never had that before.'

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I Think, Before, About, Vogue

The worst was when my skirt fell down to my ankles, but I had on thick tights underneath.

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Worst, Fell, Ankles, Skirt

After Versace was murdered, the first person to call me was Mandela.

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Person, Call, Versace, Mandela

I started this charity, Fashion for Relief, in 2005, after Hurricane Katrina happened. New Orleans was actually the first place I visited in the United States. It was one of my first big jobs, a shoot for British 'Elle.' It was April 14, 1986.

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Big, United, British, New Orleans

Yes, I did and a lot of my friends who are in the same program as I were very much supportive, and the most important thing they said to me is do not let this interfere with what you have to do in taking car of yourself. That was the most important thing.

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Supportive, Very, Program, Interfere

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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Modeling, Started, Shows, Understood

I don't like workouts that make you bulky.

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You, Like, Make, Workouts

I'm very observant and very instinctive. In life, you have to have the vulnerability to accept when you are to blame. And I do have that, and I am open enough to say it.

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Say, Vulnerability, Very, Open

I like to control everything, and you cannot control everything. You have to at some point say, 'I let go and I'm going to let the cards fall where they fall... For a control freak, it's hard.

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Cards, Some, Like, Control Freak

I've always been very shy of doing television. I've always said 'no.' Not to be disrespectful to anyone - I didn't want to say 'yes' and then let people down.

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Always, Been, Very, Disrespectful

I don't worry about a number. I'm fine with aging.

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Worry, Number, Fine, Aging

When I first got Yves Saint Laurent Couture, I didn't know how to take off a cape. I would ask Katoucha and Dalma - the real divas of the runway - 'Can you show me?' I've never been afraid to ask for help.

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Show, Been, Got, Cape

The chocolate and crisps come in at times. You have to allow the little things that make you happy. I'm not extreme about what I eat.

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Happy, Little Things, Allow, Extreme

I don't work out as much as I should, but I do believe that it's a healthy mind as well as a healthy body that keeps me fit, sound and calm.

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Work, Mind, Sound, Keeps

I've been offered jobs by companies that supported apartheid many times in the 25 years of my modeling career, but I have never taken one of them. I have to refuse that money, because I'm not going to work against my people. They've suffered enough.

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Career, Modeling, Been, Supported

Anger is a manifestation of a deeper issue... and that, for me, is based on insecurity, self-esteem and loneliness.

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Self-Esteem, Based, Issue, Deeper

What I like about gyrotonics is you feel like you really elongated yourself for the day... As we all get older, everything changes and moves, and there's natural ways to exercise. I think it's important, and I think it's something that can help keep things in place.

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Changes, I Think, About, Older

Children are our future we must take care of them with maximum effort.

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Future, Children, Take, Care

There is only going to be one Kate Moss. Kate is an icon.

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Moss, Only, Going, Kate

I love mentoring young girls. I've always been like that.

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Love, Always, Been, Mentoring

Well, in brief, I was discovered by a lady called Beth Boldt. She had also been a model. She used to take pictures of the girls she found, and she took a picture of me one day in my school uniform, and it all kind of started from there.

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One Day, Been, Discovered, Brief

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