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There's only one very good life and that's the life you know you want and you make it yourself.

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Diana Vreeland
Age: 83 †
Born: 1906
Born: July 29
Died: 1989
Died: August 2
Editor
Fashion Editor
Journalist
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Paris
France
D. V. Vreeland
Diana Vreland
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Never worry about the facts. Just project an image to the public.
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All my life I’ve pursued the perfect red. I can never get painters to mix it for me. It’s exactly as if I’d said, ‘I want rococo with a spot of Gothic in it and a bit of Buddhist temple’—they have no idea what I’m talking about. About the best red is to copy the color of a child’s cap in any Renaissance portrait.
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Balenciaga did the most delicious evening clothes. Clothes aren't delicious any more.
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I went to work to make money, not because I was bored. It was money that I wanted.
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A good photograph was never what I was looking for. I like to have a point. I had to have a point or I didn't have a picture. This is what I've always found so fascinating about paparazzi pictures. They catch something unintended, on the wing... they get that thing. It's the revelation of personality.
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If you think all the time every day of your life, you might as well kill yourself today and be happier tomorrow.
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When I arrived in America, I had these very dark red nails which some people objected to, but then some people object to absolutely everything.
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God was fair to the Japanese. He gave them no oil, no coal, no diamonds, no gold, no natural resources — nothing! Nothing comes from the island that you can sustain a civilization on. What God gave the Japanese was a sense of style—maintained through the centuries through hard work and the disciplines of ambition.
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No one had a better sense of luxury than Coco Chanel, She really had the spirit of the 20th Century.
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Without emotion there is no beauty
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Don't look left nor right and never compete. Never. Watching the other guy is what kills all forms of energy.
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Don't look back. Just go ahead. Give ideas away. Under every idea there's a new idea waiting to be born.
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This is a weakness of the world. Someone thinks they've discovered something for the first time. They want to be authoritative about it.
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I sincerely believe that energy grows from itself and the more energy you expand the more you create within yourself.
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You know the greatest thing is passion, without it what have you got? I mean if you love someone you can love them as much as you can love them but if it isn’t a passion, it isn’t burning, it isn’t on fire, you haven’t lived.
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The best time to leave a party is when the party’s just beginning. There’s no drink that kills except the drink that you didn’t want to take, as the saying goes, and there’s no hour that kills except the hour you stayed after you wanted to go home.
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For goodness sakes, beware of curls… It is a great art to do them so that the girls not only look modern - but do not suddenly look very vulgar.
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Why don't you have a room done up in every color green? This will take months, years, to collect, but it will be delightful-a melange of plants, green glass, green porcelains, and furniture covered in sad greens, gay greens, clear, faded, and poison greens?
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You don't have to be born beautiful to be wildly attractive.
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I've always had such wonderful opportunities, but I never made the effort, haven't put on the pressure. But I never took them.
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