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Hotness to me is scary. I don't want to be hot. I just want to be a staple. I want to be something that's trusted.

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Tyra Banks
Age: 50
Born: 1973
Born: December 4
Actor
Businessperson
Entrepreneur
Film Actor
Model
Musician
Singer
Television Actor
Television Personality
Television Presenter
Inglewood
California
Tyra Lynne Banks
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Models now need to promote themselves, think like businesswomen and diversify their careers by doing other things. Chances are very slim that a mere model will become a household name today.
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It's not like I want to hop on a bandwagon, because I said it 15 years ago - bringing a child into your life who is not genetically yours is one of the most beautiful things you can do. But I'm also interested in having my own baby, too.
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Love is an excuse to be stupid
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I made my living being 20 or 30 pounds heavier than the average model. And that's where I got famous.
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I wanted to be a film and television writer and producer.
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You can have all the potential in world, but unless you have confidence, you have nothing.
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Black women have always been these vixens, these animalistic erotic women. Why can't we just be the sexy American girl next door?
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Paris is one of the most beautiful places in all the world. Unfortunately, I was so homesick I couldn't appreciate its beauty.
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My mom never taught me to be waiting for some prince on a white horse to swipe me off my feet.
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Love me or hate me I promise that it will never make or break me...<3
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My aunt used to call me light bulb head because my head is small at the bottom and bigger at the top. But it was a term of endearment.
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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 embarrassed when a businessman friend asked, 'What's the yearly budget of your talk show? What's the per-episode budget?' And I looked at him with these blank, typical-model eyes and said, 'I don't know.' I call myself a businesswoman and I don't know that? So that is my goal next year - to really dissect the budget.
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A smile is the most important thing you wear.
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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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Most of my career is spent in a meeting... dressed sharply, looking really great negotiating over a table, strategizing or coming up with new marketing plans or new ideas. And that makes me really, really happy.
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I hate when models say 'Oh, plastic surgery is just a wrong thing. What are you talking about? You won the genetic lottery. You look like this specimen that's making people everywhere feel insecure and you're going to ridicule someone for getting plastic surgery?
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Its so important to understand your good attendance ups your chances of graduating.
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Well, I don't think of myself as a diva. I'm too dorky! Look at my shoes. (Points to the aforementioned sneakers.) I always look like this. I don't always want to be working.
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I am totally against plastic surgery. A lot of people think I have breast implants because I have the biggest boobs in the business.
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