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“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.”
“I'm always trying to do the impossible to please people. It comes from not being secure in myself and not looking at the things within I have to fix. Sometimes you keep going because you don't want to face the truth.”
“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.”
“There is only going to be one Kate Moss. Kate is an icon.”
“I was born in London and raised in Rome until I was 4. Then we went back to London, where I went to school.”
“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.”
“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.”
“I love England, especially the food. There's nothing I like more than a lovely bowl of pasta.”
“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.”
“In fact, I don't read newspapers any longer.”
“Look, you have to make mistakes. That's how you learn and that's how the world works.”
“I'm not set on a pedestal where I think I'm too high and mighty.”
“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.”
“My features are completely ethnic.”