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“What i like about photographs is that they capture a moment that’s gone forever, impossible to reproduce.”
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“Don’t sacrifice yourself too much, because if you sacrifice too much there’s nothing else you can give and nobody will care for you.”
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“The only love that I really believe in is a mother’s love for her children.”
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“People who do a job that claims to be creative have to be alone to recharge their batteries. You can’t live 24 hours a day in the spotlight and remain creative. For people like me, solitude is a victory.”
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“Never use the word “cheap”. Today everybody can look chic in inexpensive clothes (the rich buy them too). There is good clothing design on every level today. You can be the chicest thing in the world in a T-shirt and jeans — it’s up to you.”
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“We live in a dark and romantic and quite tragic world.”
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“Dieting is the only game where you win when you lose!”
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“One is never over-dressed or underdressed with a Little Black Dress.”
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“A respectable appearance is sufficient to make people more interested in your soul”
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“Sweatpants are a sign of defeat. You lost control of your life so you bought some sweatpants.”
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“I’m very much down to earth, just not this earth.”
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“Don't look to the approval of others for your mental stability”
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“People who say that yesterday was better than today are ultimately devaluing their own existence.”
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“I love classic beauty. It’s an idea of beauty with no standard.”
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“Books are a hard-bound drug with no danger of an overdose. I am the happy victim of books.”
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“Fashion is a language that creates itself in clothes to interpret reality.”
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“Music gives color to the air of the moment.”
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“I like to reinvent myself — it’s part of my job.”
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“Clear thinking at the wrong moment can stifle creativity.”
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“Absurdity and anti—absurdity are the two poles of creative energy.”
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“The iPod completely changed the way people approach music.”
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“When people talk about the good old days, I say to people, 'It's not the days that are old, it's you that's old.' I hate the good old days. What is important is that today is good.”
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“The woman is the most perfect doll that i have dressed with delight and admiration.”
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“Youthfulness is about how you live not when you were born.”
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“We need houses as we need clothes, architecture stimulates fashion. It’s like hunger and thirst — you need them both.”
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“Luxury is the ease of a t-shirt in a very expensive dress.”
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“I am a fashion person, and fashion is not only about clothes -- it's about all kinds of change”
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“I want everyone to wear what they want and mix it in their own way. That, to me, is what is modern.”
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“The secret to modeling is not being perfect. What one needs is a face that people can identify in a second. You have to be given what’s needed by nature, and what’s needed is to bring something new.”
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“Forgiveness is too easy. I can forget by indifference, but not forgive. I prefer revenge.”
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