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I only take risks in couture, but I don't take risks in athleticism.

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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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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I have 4 bedrooms in my house. 1 is for guests, the other 3 are for closets.
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You come to Paris, you get true originality, and it's wonderful.
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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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Russia is a place of great culture. If you've read Tolstoy's War and Peace, Dostoyevsky, Pushkin, Chekhov...the culture of the great Russian literature is amazing. The human narrative you get out of War and Peace is universal.
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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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On 9/11, that morning, I was in a Christian Dior Couture appointment at the Hotel Pierre.
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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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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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When I have interns, I always say, 'Handwritten thank-you notes can make a difference.' People remember that - not an e-mail, a handwritten note in an envelope.
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I always feel comfortable, basically in any situation except perhaps airports.
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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 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 watch MSNBC for the news.
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Look at 'American Idol,' which I don't look at. Those winners haven't become household names except for Jennifer Hudson, and she was a reject. You can't aim to be a household name. You just have to be successful.
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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'm so sick of mermaid dresses, trains, borrowed bling-bling, and a pose.
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First Ladies have always been held like specimens under a media microscope.
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