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When I discovered dancing, I learned to dream.

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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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It’s not about the dress you wear, but it’s about the life you lead in the dress.
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Don't look back. Just go ahead. Give ideas away. Under every idea there's a new idea waiting to be born.
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The personality is a work of art.
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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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When I arrived in America, I had these very dark red nails which some people objected to, but then some people object to absolutely everything.
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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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Unshined shoes are the end of civilization.
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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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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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What do I think about the way most people dress? Most people are not something one thinks about.
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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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Where would fashion be without literature?
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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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I always say I hope to God I die in a town with a good tailor, a good shoemaker, and perhaps someone who's interested in a little quelque chose d'autre.
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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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I wasn't a fashion editor. I was the one and only fashion editor.
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My life has been more influenced by books than by any other one thing.
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