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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.

Andre Leon Talley

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Andre Leon Talley
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: October 16
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Washington
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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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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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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 think it's important that models be healthy.
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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 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 only take risks in couture, but I don't take risks in athleticism.
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First Ladies have always been held like specimens under a media microscope.
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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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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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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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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 suppose the most daring thing I've ever done is try to water ski. And that was not successful.
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Beauty is health. Health is beauty.
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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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