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There are people who give you the confidence that you're lacking and once you have confidence, you're free and finally you can let out what's inside of you.

Carine Roitfeld

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Carine Roitfeld
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 19
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Enthusiasm is something so positive.
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When you have confidence, when you feel loved by people, you can tell them the truth. It's important that I can say the photo isn't beautiful or the photo shoot sucks.
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I need a lot of black on my eyes and a little shot of vodka to be brave, because you're beautiful when you relax.
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It’s funny, everything is so much easier when you do it yourself.
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Grandmother doesn't mean that you have gray hair and you retire and stay home cooking cakes for your grandchildren.
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Sins are timeless. Sins are an everyday reality for every one. Sin has been in existence since the beginning of man, since Adam and Eve. It will always be pertinent.
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I think it's good that [my granddaughter] here because I lost my parents and now it's great that there's a new generation. And she's taught me new things that I've forgotten. Like, when you're on holiday and see what it's like to see a shell or go into the water for the first time.
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I think that something needs to be weird in order to have real beauty.
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