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"I think it's always good to learn a craft from scratch the real way, so that you've learned it from the basis, the raw bones, and then you have that to fall back on. I personally wouldn't want it any other way."
"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."
"I have no regrets. I've got my health."
"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 # controlfreak , it's hard."
"I'm not set on a pedestal where I think I'm too high and mighty."
"In fact, I don't read newspapers any longer."
"When I wanted to change the concept of what I was doing, I needed to be more public because it involved more people to collaborate. And I'm doing television now. I have to be honest, I was very afraid to do TV. I said no for 10 years."
"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."
"My mum [who has breast cancer] is a fighter. I've got that from her, I know she's a fighter."
"No one should ever be ashamed of going to meetings. It's healthy, it's therapeutic and it's the right way to live."
"I look at modeling as something I'm doing for black people in general."
"I love mentoring young girls. I've always been like that."
"I was born in London and raised in Rome until I was 4. Then we went back to London, where I went to school."
"So when this opportunity came up through Elisabeth Murdoch and her company Shine, to be an executive producer and actually be part of the show, I liked the idea because I like the word mentor. I don't want to judge someone. I like sharing my knowledge with my girls, and anything they ask me I'll try to do to help them. Any of my real friends who know me, know that's how I really am."
"I've been doing my job well for 17 years. People must see something in me. Otherwise, I'd be over and out."
"I make a lot of money, but I don't want to talk about that."
"I cannot drink or do anything that changes the mind."
"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."
"Everyone has a temper. A temper is an emotion."
"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."