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NXT is the professional level, and it's the best of the best. ”
Going to that level, a lot of guys get to the NFL, and they don't make a long career out of it. The NFL is very hard. One percent of college athletes make it to the NFL. ”
I don't see myself only as a Somali character. I think of myself as an actor, and if the job fits me and I like the story, I will go for it. ”
I only began to sing because I couldn't get a job as an actress. ”
Doubt can motivate you, so don't be afraid of it. Confidence and doubt are at two ends of the scale, and you need both. They balance each other out. ”
I started my modelling career by sending my pictures to American Apparel and eventually meeting my friend Petra Collins, who started shooting me for magazines around New York. I ended up signing a modelling contract with Wilhelmina Models a couple of years later. ”
If a man is a writer, everybody tiptoes around past the locked door of the breadwinner. But if you're an ordinary female housewife, people say, 'This is just something Barbara wanted to do; it's not professional.' ”
They wanted me to do movies and television when I was very young, and it was a big temptation, but I really thought the only way I could learn the profession was on the stage. ”
If you were out of a job and your kid needed diapers and your husband just left you, you would be so confused. ”
Career is too pompous a word. It was a job, and I have always felt privileged to be paid for what I love doing. ”