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I don't tear down. I prefer to build up.

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Andre Leon Talley
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: October 16
Autobiographer
Editor
Journalist
Washington
District of Columbia
Andre Leon Talley
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I do believe there's a heaven. I do believe that God has given me the resilience and the survival skills to withstand the chiffon trenches.
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I only watch MSNBC for the news.
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On 9/11, that morning, I was in a Christian Dior Couture appointment at the Hotel Pierre.
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The happiest moments of my childhood were spent on my grandmother's front porch in Durham, N.C., or at her sister's farmhouse in Orange County, where chickens paraded outside the kitchen's screen door and hams were cured in the smokehouse.
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I have 4 bedrooms in my house. 1 is for guests, the other 3 are for closets.
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First Ladies have always been held like specimens under a media microscope.
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Waiting in line for something mundane is very boring. Waiting for my doctor to see me and waiting for my dentist to see me, yes, that is boring.
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