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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.

Diana Vreeland

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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
Energy
Left
Disapproval
Form
Kills
Look
Compete
Looks
Approval
Right
Forms
Never
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One thing I hold against Americans is that they have no flair for the rain. They seem unsettled by it it's against them: they take it as an assault, an inconvenience! But rain is so wonderfully cleansing, so refreshing, so calming...
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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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The first thing to do is to arrange to be born in Paris. After that, everything follows quite naturally.
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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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Never worry about the facts. Just project an image to the public.
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Fashion must be the most intoxicating release from the banality of the world.
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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'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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