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Beauty is health. Health is beauty.

Andre Leon Talley

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Andre Leon Talley
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: October 16
Autobiographer
Editor
Journalist
Washington
District of Columbia
Andre Leon Talley
Beauty
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Like Hillary Clinton before her, Mrs. Obama has always been a working woman. She is a lawyer turned hospital administrator turned political right hand. It is a unique resume.
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People have always been fascinated by people in the public eye and what they wear, what they are doing, but not in a tabloid way. Tabloid celebrities are a turnoff. A lot of celebrities...you wonder why they are celebrities.
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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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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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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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I suppose the most daring thing I've ever done is try to water ski. And that was not successful.
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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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The most luxurious item is a beautiful bed and beautiful, simple sheets.
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I always feel comfortable, basically in any situation except perhaps airports.
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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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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 just need green. I need to wake up and see grass and squirrels. I don't want to see skyscrapers.
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I know what it is like to be brought up with unconditional love. In my life that came from my grandmother.
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First Ladies have always been held like specimens under a media microscope.
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I don't understand the world of the Internet. I just type up on my computer.
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I'm so sick of mermaid dresses, trains, borrowed bling-bling, and a pose.
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There is room in today's world for men to wear dresses.
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Some days are good some days are not so good. Some days are really exciting. Some days are just tedious. You just have to get up out of bed.
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I only take risks in couture, but I don't take risks in athleticism.
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