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Carmen Dell Orefice Inspirational Quotes (13)

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If your ceiling is falling down, don't you call someone in? I apply the same principle to myself.
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There’s always a boyfriend... Whatever else I have to give up on, I won’t give up on love.
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I'm a working woman of 80 trying to work out what the image I can project is. How I can do it with, you know, dignity.
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My mother was harsh and constantly told me I had jug ears and heaven knows what else. But she was devoted and a hard worker.
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I have had more magazine covers in the last 25 years than I have had in my whole elongated career. [...] Today I am in a territory that business considers unmarketable: age and white hair. Slowly, however, I started to own that territory little by little because I stood up for age.
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I'm loath to do interviews. What comes out is generally not what I meant or thought I was saying or thought they were asking.
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If you had the ceiling falling down in your living room, would you not go and have a repair?
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My life has been amazing. How many other ladies of 76 can say that the snapshot on their senior citizen's card was taken by Norman Parkinson?
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Even with a computer, I can't get rid of all the papers in my life.
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We are oceans apart. My mother had a very difficult life.
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The money I've earned has enabled me to keep my life in my own hands. I had a terrific body, and I got paid for using it.
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As a model, I didn't have an identity I was a chameleon, a silent actress. I was an amorphous thing. I wasn't full of personality, I was full of solitude and solemnity. I wasn't a cover-girl type.
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The minute we don't finance the arts, the accountants, attorneys and politicians keep taking the cream of money off the top and it doesn't trickle down unless all of society understands that we must support the arts, whether it's ballet, opera, fashion. Fashion is like opera, is like ballet, is like theatre. It's a visual theatre.
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