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When I discovered dancing, I learned to dream.

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
Discovered
Dancing
Dance
Learned
Dream

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Still, my dream in life is to come home and think of absolutely nothing. After all, you can’t think all the time.
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God was fair to the Japanese. He gave them no oil, no coal, no diamonds, no gold, no natural resources — nothing! Nothing comes from the island that you can sustain a civilization on. What God gave the Japanese was a sense of style—maintained through the centuries through hard work and the disciplines of ambition.
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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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My life has been more influenced by books than by any other one thing.
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Pleasure is everything.
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Before even the technique, there is a dream. Chanel had it. The dream is everything.
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You don't have to be born beautiful to be wildly attractive.
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Every girl in the world should have geisha training
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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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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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Prettiness is not a rent you pay for occupying a space marked 'female'
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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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To be contented—that’s for the cows.
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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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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 only intelligent to wish to look after yourself properly.
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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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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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You're not supposed to give people what they want, you're supposed to give them what they don't know that they want yet.
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The personality is a work of art.
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