Lily Cole Quotes

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• Giving triggers social cohesion. It's also the basis for an economy not based on money.
• I love modeling but also see it as a platform for the million other things I want to achieve and create in life.
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• I take my books everywhere. Plane journeys are a good opportunity to study, or also when I'm having my hair done.
• 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…
• I was like most teenagers. I wanted to look more conventional - you know, to just be the pretty girl in school.
• I have made a living off the way I look, and I have really learnt to accept myself for being unusual.
• America has had an influence on me, as has going out with a Cuban-American guy and having lots of American friends. But I am still…
• I always used to love couture because it was more theatrical than the runways. The runways always felt more like part of the machine.
• The need to protect the environment has emerged as an undeniably important priority for me.
• 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…
• Modelling, fashion and film have all encouraged me to learn more about issues and to feel empowered enough to do something about them.
• I think the media are so hypocritical a lot of the time in the way they chastise something just so that they can print it…
• As users of the Internet, we all have a role to play in defining what we want it to be.
• 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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