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Andre Leon Talley
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: October 16
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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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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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It's always great to have things from France at a wedding. It's symbolic of style, of culture, of taste.
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First Ladies have always been held like specimens under a media microscope.
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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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Beauty is health. Health is beauty.
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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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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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I think it's important that models be healthy.
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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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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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Snooki and Honey Boo Boo. These are big celebrities in the U.S. You want to throw up.
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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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Fashion illustrator Antonio Lopez was a major part of my early career.
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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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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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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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You come to Paris, you get true originality, and it's wonderful.
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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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