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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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Andre Leon Talley
Age: 74
Born: 1949
Born: October 16
Autobiographer
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Journalist
Washington
District of Columbia
Andre Leon Talley
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I love people - it is not the fashion, it is the people in fashion I love.
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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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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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