"People often say that 'beauty is in the eye of the beholder,' and I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder. This empowers us to find beauty in places where others have not dared to look, including inside ourselves."

Beauty, People, Eye

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"People often say that 'beauty is in the eye of the beholder,' and I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder. This empowers us to find beauty in places where others have not dared to look, including inside ourselves."

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"I really do love Diana Ross; I grew up listening to her records. I grew up in a little town in Mexico, so while we got the music, we never got the experience of watching her."

Experience, Love, Music, Listening

"I keep waiting to meet a man who has more balls than I do."

Man, Waiting

"I don't see women and think of them as competition or with judgment. Women really move me. I feel connected to all kinds of women. I am angry because I think we've been mistreated throughout history in different countries, including America. I admire women."

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"For my wrap present, Colin Farrell gave me a first edition book. I got so involved with this character and I was so sad when the movie was over that when I got home and I tried to read the book I got really emotional and I started crying."

Home, Character, First, Present

"Every woman who thinks she is the only victim of violence has to know that there are many more."

Violence, Woman

"There is a subconscious way of taking violence as a way of expression, as a normality, and it has a lot of effects in the youth in the way they absorb education and what they hope to get out of life."

Education, Life, Hope, Expression

"I think it's not a femme fatale when someone is not doing it to manipulate men or be like a black widow. She loves him. She does it out of love. She wants him so badly to stay with her."

Men, Love

"For me, I have to say that I like to work a lot too, but I like not working better. The perfect scenario is when you just worked and you know something's coming up, then you have four, five, six months off. But you know you're going to have a job later."

Work, Job, Months

"Some men have a silly theory about beautiful women - that somewhere along the line they'll turn into a monster. That movie gave them a chance to watch it happen."

Men, Women, Chance, Silly

"When it is important for you to say something and you find a vehicle to say it, then go for it. It is so rare when that happens so I think every minute spent fighting for it is always worth it. Even if nothing ends up happening, it's still worth the fight."

Fight, Fighting, Nothing, Worth

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Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

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"Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress."

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"By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower."

Rabindranath Tagore, Indian Poet

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"Beauty is truth's smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror."

Rabindranath Tagore, Indian Poet

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"Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time."

Albert Camus, French Philosopher

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"Sculpture is the art of the intelligence."

Pablo Picasso, Spanish Artist

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"Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

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"The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

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"The expression a woman wears on her face is far more important than the clothes she wears on her back."

Dale Carnegie, American Writer

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