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“Beauty, especially Filipina beauty, is not a performance—it’s a presence."

— Angel Aquino

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More quotes by Angel Aquino

“Well, it's mainly because it's my passion. I really love what I do."

“I think it's the business of food and the business of, you know, that encourages us to eat more and more. Always more."

“If you love yourself and if you want to stay, ako (me), I want to stay in this business for a longer time because I'm a single mom."

“Every line holds a story—of laughter, resilience, motherhood, heartbreak, joy, and growth.”

“Being a morena woman in a culture long obsessed with fair skin already taught me that nonconformity is power.”

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Beautiful objects are wrought by study through effort, but ugly things are reaped automatically without toil.

Democritus Freeman (1948)

True beauty dwells in deep retreats,
Whose veil is unremoved
Till heart with heart in concord beats,
And the lover is beloved.

William Wordsworth

The great artists are the ones who dare to entitle to beauty things so natural that when they're seen afterward, people say: Why did I never realize before that this too was beautiful?

André Gide The Immoralist (1902)

Beauty itself doth of itself persuade
The eyes of men without an orator.

William Shakespeare The Rape of Lucrece (1594)

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