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You come to Paris, you get true originality, and it's wonderful.

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Andre Leon Talley
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: October 16
Autobiographer
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Journalist
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Andre Leon Talley
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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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Beauty is health. Health is beauty.
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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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Reality TV, although I'm a part of it, I think reality TV is a terrible thing.
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I always feel comfortable, basically in any situation except perhaps airports.
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In my day you didn't speak until spoken to.
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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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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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