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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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Diana Vreeland
Age: 83 †
Born: 1906
Born: July 29
Died: 1989
Died: August 2
Editor
Fashion Editor
Journalist
Socialite
Paris
France
D. V. Vreeland
Diana Vreland
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Passion
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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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Prettiness is not a rent you pay for occupying a space marked 'female'
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Being vulgar is fine, but oh please just don't be boring.
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You don't have to be born beautiful to be wildly attractive.
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Don't you loathe the word workaholic? It has nothing to do with an important thing, that you and your secretary are at the office until 6:30. But that's life, kiddo. 24-hour work doesn't go on in America. 24-hour work is what Italy and Holland did after the war. The lights never went out!
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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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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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I wasn't a fashion editor. I was the one and only fashion editor.
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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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Too much good taste can be very boring. Independent style, on the other hand, can be very inspiring.
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I think part of my success as an editor came from never worrying about a fact, a cause, an atmosphere. It was me—projecting to the public. That was my job. I think I always had a perfectly clear view of what was possible for the public. Give ‘em what they never knew they wanted.
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Within every girl is the possibility of arousing emotion. Without emotion there is no beauty.
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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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Peanut butter is the greatest invention since Christianity.
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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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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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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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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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Money has nothing to do with style at all, but naturally it helps every situation.
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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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