Naomi Campbell Quotes

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Naomi Campbell

Profession : Model

Birth : May 22, 1970

What makes a person is the ability to look at themselves and deal with their own lives.

Naomi Campbell

My features are completely ethnic.

Naomi Campbell

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

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I have no regrets. I've got my health.

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I make a lot of money, but I don't want to talk about that.

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

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I've been doing my job well for 17 years. People must see something in me. Otherwise, I'd be over and out.

Naomi Campbell

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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I was born in London and raised in Rome until I was 4. Then we went back to London, where I went to school.

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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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I loved watching so many of the great designers I've worked with do what they do. That's why I'm still loyal to the designers that I've known since I was 16.

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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.

Naomi Campbell

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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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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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.

Naomi Campbell

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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Everyone has a temper. A temper is an emotion.

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I'm not angry. And I don't like the thing of the 'angry black woman,' either.

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

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