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I love people - it is not the fashion, it is the people in fashion I love.

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
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Fashion

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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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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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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 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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I only take risks in couture, but I don't take risks in athleticism.
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At an early age I discovered the beauty in pictures in 'Vogue' magazine and Ebony magazine, and I would read 'The New York Times.' I had to make my own world within my world because I was an only child.
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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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Money isn't everything, but it is when you start thinking about putting money away for your retirement days.
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In my day you didn't speak until spoken to.
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First Ladies have always been held like specimens under a media microscope.
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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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I personally go to the airport looking like a homeless person, because I think people will leave me alone. But I dress myself with my luggage - all my luggage matches.
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