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You gotta have style. It helps you get down the stairs. It helps you get up in the morning. It's a way of life. Without it, you're nobody.

Diana Vreeland

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Diana Vreeland
Age: 83 †
Born: 1906
Born: July 29
Died: 1989
Died: August 2
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D. V. Vreeland
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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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I think allure is something around you, like a perfume or like a scent. It's like a memory ... it pervades.
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If it isn't a passion, it isn't burning, it isn't on fire, you haven't lived.
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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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I read everything! I would have read the phone book if you put it in front of me. I just read.
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Of course I was always mad about the ballet russe, mad about it!
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To be contented—that’s for the cows.
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I was always sort of a loner, I suppose. I always had to think out everything for myself... I suppose that is what you call a loner.
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Where Chanel came from in France is anyone’s guess. She said one thing one day and another thing the next. She was a peasant—and a genius. Peasants and geniuses are the only people who count and she was both.
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