"I don't want to make the same mistakes of being swept along with things, taking on jobs that I'm not passionate about, that I don't really believe in but that everyone says I should do"
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The phrasing is doing double duty. “Mistakes” implies this isn’t theory; it’s postmortem. She’s sketching a before-and-after, the kind that arrives when someone has experienced the hollow reward of a gig that looked good on paper but felt wrong in the body. Then she slides in the real antagonist: consensus. “Everyone says I should” is the voice of agents, PR teams, tabloids, fans, even the inner critic trained by those audiences. The pressure isn’t just to work; it’s to perform gratitude for the opportunity.
There’s also a subtle reputational move here. Models are often treated as passive surfaces for other people’s ideas. Brook claims authorship: passion, belief, choice. She frames selectivity as integrity rather than entitlement, which matters in a culture that punishes women in public-facing careers for either overreaching or opting out. The intent is self-protection, but the subtext is power: she’s redrawing the boundary between a personal brand and a personal life, insisting the two don’t have to share a script.
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APA Style (7th ed.)
Brook, Kelly. (2026, January 16). I don't want to make the same mistakes of being swept along with things, taking on jobs that I'm not passionate about, that I don't really believe in but that everyone says I should do. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-dont-want-to-make-the-same-mistakes-of-being-130344/
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Brook, Kelly. "I don't want to make the same mistakes of being swept along with things, taking on jobs that I'm not passionate about, that I don't really believe in but that everyone says I should do." FixQuotes. January 16, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-dont-want-to-make-the-same-mistakes-of-being-130344/.
MLA Style (9th ed.)
"I don't want to make the same mistakes of being swept along with things, taking on jobs that I'm not passionate about, that I don't really believe in but that everyone says I should do." FixQuotes, 16 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-dont-want-to-make-the-same-mistakes-of-being-130344/. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.






