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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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Andre Leon Talley
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: October 16
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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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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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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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Drekitude is the lowest point in the lowest ebb. It could be your look. It could be your shoes. It could be that you're standing wrong. Drek is a total, total, total hot mess.
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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 just need green. I need to wake up and see grass and squirrels. I don't want to see skyscrapers.
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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'm so sick of mermaid dresses, trains, borrowed bling-bling, and a pose.
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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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I don't tear down. I prefer to build up.
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Fashion illustrator Antonio Lopez was a major part of my early career.
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People need to be edited life needs to be edited. I need to be edited.
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First Ladies have always been held like specimens under a media microscope.
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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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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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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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People love fashion exhibits because they can fantasize. They can respond to a dress even if they can never wear a dress like that.
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Beauty is health. Health is beauty.
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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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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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