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People need to be edited life needs to be edited. I need to be edited.

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Andre Leon Talley
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: October 16
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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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Luxury is...to be able to take control of one's life, health, and the pursuit of happiness in a way that is joyful.
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It's incorrect to assume you can be a fashion editor because you blog, if you don't have experience to look at fashion in a professional way.
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I'm so sick of mermaid dresses, trains, borrowed bling-bling, and a pose.
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I don't tear down. I prefer to build up.
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I think people look great in black. I love that what stands out is the person, especially. Black just conveys a kind of drama, even if it can be quiet drama. It does lend to the wearer a sense of confidence.
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I only watch MSNBC for the news.
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Mrs. Obama has a hug - a sincere and friendly embrace - that has become familiar to countless supporters from coast to coast. And when she talks to you, she focuses all her calm attention on your face.
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It's always great to have things from France at a wedding. It's symbolic of style, of culture, of taste.
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There is room in today's world for men to wear dresses.
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I love Russian culture. I don't know the young Russia, I'm not at all familiar with young Russia, but the old school Russia is good enough for me for the moment.
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Fashion illustrator Antonio Lopez was a major part of my early career.
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Reality TV, although I'm a part of it, I think reality TV is a terrible thing.
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In my day you didn't speak until spoken to.
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When I was a young boy, growing up in Durham, North Carolina, the women in my family were truly passionate about their clothes nothing was more beautiful to me than women dressing with the utmost, meticulous attention to accessories, shoes, handbags, hats, coats, dresses and gloves to attend Sunday church services.
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The late Estee Lauder says you can never wear white shoes after Labor Day. But of course, in today's world, that does not exist.
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Wearing clothes should be a personal narrative of emotion. I always respond to fashion in an emotional way.
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One my favorite things is to go to the provinces of Russia and see the 18th century wood churches with the onion dome architecture. These humble wonders of incredible imagination of architects that were obviously not living in places like Paris or London, but they've created these amazing churches.
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People love fashion exhibits because they can fantasize. They can respond to a dress even if they can never wear a dress like that.
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You cannot live your life in the elitist world of fashion and not step out or you're disconnected. You have to realize that fashion is not the endgame.
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