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I wasn't the typical pageant girl - I was a little more nerdy, and they gave me a voice. I created the Queen of the Universe pageant, which is charity-based, to benefit UNESCO. For me, the most important thing is that contestants have a charity-based platform or charity ambition.

Me Girl Queen Ambition

The Miss America Pageant reinforces a belief that women are merely how they look and how they please.

Women Look America Miss

The day of the sun is like the day of a king. It is a promenade in the morning, a sitting on the throne at noon, a pageant in the evening.

Wallace Stevens

Nature Morning Day King

I felt so out of place at the Miss India pageant. I had just come back from America, and I was told I needed to lose my American accent and learn the Queen's English, so I had to enunciate my vowels and speak well and eloquently. Giving up a New York accent is pretty hard.

Priyanka Chopra

Queen Speak Place Lose

I didn't get out of India till I was 15 years old, and I went to Malaysia with my father for an exhibition. And after that international visit, the next time I stepped on foreign shores was for the Miss Universe pageant at the age of 18.

Time Age Father Universe

It seemed to me that this might be a great pageant, which would give a chance for a very interesting picture.

Henry Ossawa Tanner

Me Great Picture Chance

I accidentally entered a youth pageant when I was 14. That's like a beauty pageant, but without the beauty. It was terrible.

Zooey Deschanel

Beauty Youth Like Without

If you're comfortable with yourself, then you'll look beautiful. If you're not feeling comfortable with yourself, than that kind of shows. I think that as cheesy as the pageant industry can be seen at times, it actually does help women - boosting their confidence and growing into their own. I have to give it credit for that.

Beautiful Confidence Women You

I think that, if anything, the pageant is great for people who suffer from body issues. It's all about being comfortable with what you're given and what you have and being able to flaunt it without being insecure. It's about empowering women, not making them feel weak or less.

Women You People Great

I think the pageant system is about empowering women. I think that aspect of it is great, but when you take parents who are forcing their children to do anything, I don't think it's healthy.

Women Children You Great

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The whole process of winning the pageant has been so amazing, I'm really excited to move forward into all kinds of projects.

Winning Amazing Process Forward

I was studying communications and acting, and I decided over the summer that I wanted to work on my acting skills and perform in a pageant. I didn't have any other way of practicing, so I entered the Miss Rhode Island pageant. I ended up wearing a dress that was a $20 rental. It was too short, and there was a hole in the back of it.

Work Dress Way Short

You're filmed that one very special day of the pageant, and you want to make sure you're as ready to go as you can be.

Day You Special Go

The pageant movie I'm obsessed with is 'Miss Congeniality', hands down! I could quote everything from that movie. I love so many scenes, but I always find myself quoting the scene when Sandra Bullock goes, 'I really do just want world peace!'

Love Myself Peace World

The first time I joined the gym was during the Miss Sri Lanka pageant in 2006. Then, I went for the Miss Universe contest where I was exposed to girls who were very fit for their age. They could have joined the Olympics. They were doing crazy exercises.

Jacqueline Fernandez

Time Age Crazy Gym

When I first came to India from Sri Lanka, people were surprised to see my toned arms. I had come right after the Miss Universe pageant.

Jacqueline Fernandez

People Universe India See

Just about every town in Texas has a beauty pageant. Ours was called The Dogwood Fiesta. I was in one of those. I played the guitar and sang - and lost.

Beauty Guitar Lost Just

If the Internet has been called a great democratizer, perhaps what social media has done is let anyone enter the beauty pageant. Teens can cover up pimples, whiten teeth, and even airbrush with the swipe of a finger, curating their own image to become prettier, thinner, and hotter.

Beauty Social Media Great Internet

I was always focused on my studies and wanted to be a doctor, but like every girl, I would also dream to be at a beauty pageant at least once in life.

Manushi Chhillar

Life Beauty Girl Doctor

I was always passionate about the Miss India pageant. Though I was a medical student, I never had a plan B. I dont want to regret anything in life, so it was really important for me to win this competition.

Manushi Chhillar

Life Me Regret Competition

Winning a beauty pageant and the Miss India title was always a dream.

Manushi Chhillar

Beauty Winning Dream India

When I was in Class XI, I started preparing for medical college, and after that, the Miss India pageant.

Manushi Chhillar

Medical College India Miss

I am really happy that Miss World pageant takes keen interest in my projects.

Manushi Chhillar

I Am Happy World Miss

I find this wave of super-skinny women scary. I'm not going to lie to you, I've got to drag myself down to the gym like everybody else. But I look at the red carpet sometimes and it's like a pageant.

Catherine Zeta-Jones

Myself Women You Red

When I'm wearing makeup, I choose between doing my eyes or mouth because I don't want to look like a beauty pageant child.

Beauty Eyes Makeup Look

Especially as a title-holder, you can do great things with charities, because people suddenly care about what you have to say. I wanted to make a difference, which is why I created the Queen of the Universe pageant. I want to change all of those stigmas in the beauty pageant world.

Beauty Change You People

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