#model

From the newsstands a dozen models smiled up at her from a dozen magazine covers, smiled in thin-faced, high-cheekboned agreement to Kessa's new discovery. They knew the secret too. They knew thin was good, thin was strong; thin was safe. ↗

— Steven Levenkron

#eating-disorders #happy #models #skinny #society

As a parent, I have a job as a role model to my children, and by extension, to other young people. ↗

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#extension #i #job #model #other

I've never been to New Zealand before. But one of my role models, Xena, the warrior princess, comes from there. ↗

— Madeleine Albright

#before #comes #i #models #never

Nobody I represent is pretending to be the pope or a role model for young people. People have to live their lives. They have the right to smoke if they want. ↗

— Ben Affleck

#live #lives #model #nobody #people

I never set out to be a role model, but I guess parents like it because I am dedicated to school. ↗

— Tatyana Ali

#because #dedicated #guess #i #i am

We are often taught to look for the beauty in all things, so in finding it, the layman asks the philosopher while the philosopher asks the photographer. ↗

— Criss Jami

#beauty #finding #layman #modeling #perspective

My mom cooked pot roast with noodles and frozen vegetables. Or she'd make spaghetti or hot dogs, or heat up TV dinners. Before I started modeling at age 19, I was 5'8" and weighed 165 pounds. ↗

— Carol Alt

#before #cooked #dinners #dogs #frozen

There was really no friendship in modeling, though a certain amount of warmth comes from running into models you know on shoots, because you end up in so many unfamiliar places, from Alaska to Africa. ↗

— Carol Alt

#alaska #amount #because #certain #comes

My memory of my mom is a wine glass in one hand and a cigarette in the other. She was a runway fashion model, and she was quite a glamorous woman. ↗

— Loni Anderson

#fashion #glamorous #glass #hand #memory

I always thought models had to fit a certain mould. I never thought I had what it takes. I'm too small and my look's pretty weird. ↗

— Devon Aoki

#certain #fit #had #i #i always