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The first thing to do is to arrange to be born in Paris. After that, everything follows quite naturally.

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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
Diana Vreland
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I'm for everybody. There are no set rules. But if one's not a joiner. To hell with all of them!
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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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I'm terrible on facts. But I always have an idea. If you have an idea, you're well ahead
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Peanut butter is the greatest invention since Christianity.
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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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I sincerely believe that energy grows from itself and the more energy you expand the more you create within yourself.
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The only real elegance is in the mind if you've got that, the rest really comes from it.
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I've always remained totally myself, which is to say, without an idea... of what to do.
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Without emotion there is no beauty
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A funny person is funny only for so long, but a wit can sit down and go on being spellbinding forever. One is not meant to laugh. One stays quiet and marvels. Spontaneously witty talk is without question the most fascinating entertainment there is.
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