The best beauty secret, besides sleep and plenty of water, is do whatever it is – before you go out, before you need to feel beautiful – do whatever makes you feel confident.
AIMEE MULLINSWe all bullet point our triumphs, but I am who I am because of everything you don’t see on my CV. The stuff that doesn’t work out teaches you how to trust your instincts and adapt.
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I’ve had journalists asking me, ‘What do we call you – is it handicapped, are you disabled, physically challenged?’
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It’s about alleviating stress and controlling breathing. It’s about being balanced.
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It’s hard enough for women to walk on high heels. And I’m on stilts!
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I admire the ones who keep coming back and doing it, time after time.
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Beauty is not skin-deep; it can be a means of self-affirmation, a true indicator of personality and confidence.
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I don’t know what it’s like to be an arm amputee, or have even one flesh-and-bone leg, or to have cerebral palsy.
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Life is about making your own happiness – and living by your own rules.
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Success means doing as excellent a job as you can on that particular day. The people I admire most aren’t necessarily the most wonderful athletes.
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I’m not an advocate for disability issues. Human issues are what interest me.
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I’m not running around as a continual ray of sunshine. It’s just I don’t believe in wasting time feeling sorry for myself. Get over it.
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At some point in every person’s life, you will need an assisted medical device – whether it’s your glasses, your contacts, or as you age and you have a hip replacement or a knee replacement or a pacemaker. The prosthetic generation is all around us.
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It is our humanity, and all the potential within it that makes us beautiful.
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For me, I never ever felt the ownership or any identity with any community of disabilities. I didn’t grow up being told that I was a disabled child.
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The Pentagon isn’t a place that champions individuality and innovation.
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When I watch Mad Men and I see the patronising attitudes to women that are so shocking for all of us to watch now,
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