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Journalists told me that a talk show wouldn't work. Some told me I was going to get canceled before my first season was up.
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I've been singing for six years. I've been in and out of the studios with top producers, but it wasn't something I was ready to express to the public or to the press. I wasn't ready to come out. I wanted to perfect my voice and be 100 percent positive that I could come out right.
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My fingers used to hurt really bad when I played guitar. I stopped because of it.
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I'm a perfectionist. Sometimes I have to remind myself that it's okay if there are flaws here and there.
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You've got to learn to accept the fool in you as well as the part that's got it goin' on.
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I think I'm too young to be a mogul. I think I'm too young for that.
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When I think about moguls, I think like Donald Trump who... owns NYC practically. That's a mogul. I feel like I'm on my way to a lot more, but mogul is a really serious thing. I think it's a word that gets thrown around easily.
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I don't like expensive things... I just can't help looking in a magazine for the splurge and the save.
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I love being able to go to a store, let's say... a store like Topshop or Zara or maybe even Macy's, depends on what department, and not have to look at the price tag.
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I've made millions of dollars with the body I have, so where's the pain in that?
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I think every woman would want to do something about their cellulite!
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In high school I definitely had a clique of friends. And what I loved about it was that we were healthy and good girls.
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I used to love writing in my journal.
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I've helped some of my classmates on how to strategize to get to the next level of their businesses. And it's interesting, because here I am sitting there from the entertainment industry and the fashion industry, and I'm giving a billionaire that has a business that's been in his family for 300 years - I'm giving him advice about strategy!
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Tyra the businesswoman is very close to - and I hate third person, but you said it, oh, chiiild, you said it - but me the businessperson and me the person: very similar. I can be in a business meeting and be all 'Wooo!' and 'Oh, child!' and still be talking revenues and profits and cash flows.
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I was always a good student. I wasn't the A-plus student, but I studied really hard, and I probably had a 3.2. I always wished that I had the capacity to get straight A's, but I didn't. I didn't beat myself up about it, but I really studied hard for my grades.
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I didn't have a job because nobody would hire me. My friends were getting hired, and I couldn't even get a job interview. That really rocked my self-esteem because I didn't understand what I did wrong on those job applications.
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It was hard to get guys to notice me, period, because I was so skinny and all my friends were curvy. Plus, I used to be very nervous in front of guys.
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I wanted to be a film and television writer and producer.
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I think one of the biggest things that affects young women is when they hear their mothers using fat talk.
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I went from being very popular and the head of the clique in the sixth grade to having, like, kid depression in the seventh grade. Not leaving the house. Not looking people in the eye... My body made me feel bad at everything.
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I try to keep my private life kind of private.
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I wish I was harder; I wish I didn't care so much about being the nice girl all the time because a lot of the time people can take kindness for weakness, so I wish I had a little bit more 'oomph' in me.
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I don't have that 'OMG, I gotta get married' thing! If it happens, it happens, but it's never been like, 'Oooo, I need to do that!'
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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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One of the big, most underlying messages for me is celebrating beauty that is not typical.
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'America's Next Top Model' is not a bunch of Barbies - it's a lot of girls that are atypically beautiful.
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Years ago, when I first started wearing hair extensions, I would get mail from young girls, or young girls would come up to me and they would say, 'Tyra you have the most beautiful hair, like I could never grow hair like that!' And I would say 'Child, this is a weave!'
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It is important for women to feel beautiful when she looks in the mirror, and I tell women, 'If you don't feel beautiful, find one thing that you can look in that mirror and say, 'That is beautiful.'
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Who would have thought that the girl who was forced to go to the hospital because she's so skinny would one day be called too fat?
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I know the pain of somebody who's too thin and the pain of somebody that people say is too big.
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Flaws are awesome - so, 'flawsome!' I love making up a word.
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I always feel great when I don't have clothes on.
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I have worn fake hair since I was 17 years old.
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My natural hair texture is very kinky.
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The one thing I like about being a celebrity more than anything is being able to get into any restaurant I want.
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I'm not led by money, because if that's the case, I can throw my name on everything and have a million-dollar company.
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What keeps me up at night? Sometimes it's day-to-day work stuff. And a lot of the times, it's, 'Am I making the wrong decisions in terms of reaching young women?'
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I wear my age with pride.
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When I was not connected with someone, I didn't get asked out that often.
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My freshman year, I ran for student class president and lost. The next year, I ran for student class vice president, and I won.
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Now I know that I should take better care of myself when I'm under an intense deadline, or else my body is gonna act in certain ways that are not good.
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I think the rise of Asian models is an absolutely beautiful thing.
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What I don't like to see is when models of different races come in and out of fashion.
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I created 'America's Next Top Model' one-hundred percent. I was in my kitchen making tea one morning, and I looked out the window, and the idea popped into my head. I wanted it to be 'American Idol' meets 'Ford Supermodel of the Year' meets 'The Real World.'
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I don't have the best self esteem; mine wavers month to month, but I know how to pick myself up.
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Whenever someone says I'm the next Oprah, I always respond, 'Child, there's only one Mahogany, and only one Oprah.' There are no others.
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I look up to Martha Stewart, and I love that she has product lines that are true extensions of her brand.
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You don't have to have a ring on your finger to say, 'I love you.'
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There have been top supermodels in the past that weren't as tall as the industry demands, like fashion icon Kate Moss.
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