Tyra Banks Quotes

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Tyra Banks

Profession : Model

Birth : December 4, 1973

On 'America's Top Model,' I've always told my girls to smile with their eyes. We call it 'smizing.' Over the years, it's actually become part of pop culture. I would be walking down the street, and girls would say, 'Smize!'

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Smiles come naturally to me, but I started thinking of them as an art form at my command. I studied all the time. I looked at magazines, I'd practice in front of the mirror and I'd ask photographers about the best angles. I can now pull out a smile at will.

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When I was a young girl, I lost a lot of weight over one summer - involuntarily - and was just really depressed and sad. There was nothing I could do to gain weight. I would look in the mirror and call myself disgusting every day.

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I don't go to the cool, trendy restaurants. I go to either the holes in the wall or the super-fancy restaurants where there are no cool people.

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Stop saying these negative things about yourself. Look in the mirror and find something about yourself that's positive and celebrate that!

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There's no excuse for rudeness.

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I used to have this joke: 'Every hallway is a runway.'

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One thing my mom used to tell me was to look to the other side, and know that my present is not going to be everything. So if I'm having a bad day, she goes, 'Just imagine tomorrow. This is going to be over. This is going to be done with.'

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You don't have to have a ring on your finger to say, 'I love you.'

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If you can think psychographically and not demographically, you can really target a lot more audiences.

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I have a big forehead, and I got made fun of all time. When I was a little girl, they used to call me 'five-head.'

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Kate Upton is curvy and nervy.

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It's so important to understand your good attendance ups your chances of graduating.

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Paris is one of the most beautiful places in all the world. Unfortunately, I was so homesick I couldn't appreciate its beauty.

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I have a lot of success and make a good living, but after while, you start going 'Why? Why are you doing all this?'

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On 'America's Next Top Model,' I mentor girls on television. When that TV goes off, I actually mentor other girls in the modeling industry - girls that have not been on 'Top Model,' but who appear in 'Vogue' worldwide.

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I had had an extroverted personality with a lot of friends, but when I lost the weight and grew so tall, I withdrew within myself.

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I haven't seen the Eiffel Tower, Notre Dame, the Louvre. I haven't seen anything. I don't really care.

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The runway symbolizes something in society that's very intimidating to women.

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Homelessness is an issue close to my heart.

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