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I think it's important that models be healthy.

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Andre Leon Talley
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: October 16
Autobiographer
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Washington
District of Columbia
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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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The zenith of elegance in any woman's wardrobe is the little black dress, the power of which suggests dash and refinement.
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Beauty is health. Health is beauty.
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Fashion illustrator Antonio Lopez was a major part of my early career.
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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 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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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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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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Money isn't everything, but it is when you start thinking about putting money away for your retirement days.
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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 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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There is room in today's world for men to wear dresses.
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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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I'm usually at home and in bed by 10 o'clock. I do not want to be out at anybody's New Year's Eve party.
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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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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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On 9/11, that morning, I was in a Christian Dior Couture appointment at the Hotel Pierre.
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I always feel comfortable, basically in any situation except perhaps airports.
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