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Oh, but I think that thoughtfulness and manners are everything.

Diana Vreeland

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Diana Vreeland
Age: 83 †
Born: 1906
Born: July 29
Died: 1989
Died: August 2
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Fashion Editor
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Paris
France
D. V. Vreeland
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Balenciaga often said that women did not have to be perfect or beautiful to wear his clothes. When they wore his clothes, they became beautiful.
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It's only intelligent to wish to look after yourself properly.
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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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All people are meant to be creative in a certain way. What way? Perhaps I was cut out to be a wonderful housewife, with a marvelous sense of cooking, being with my friends, running a perfect house. But I am not ambitious towards anything.
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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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You've got to have style, it helps you get out of bed in the morning.
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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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When I discovered dancing, I learned to dream.
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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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I'm terrible on facts. But I always have an idea. If you have an idea, you're well ahead
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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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It’s not about the dress you wear, but it’s about the life you lead in the dress.
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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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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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Pleasure is everything.
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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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What do I think about the way most people dress? Most people are not something one thinks about.
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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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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.
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