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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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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
Went
Money
Wanted
Work
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Bored

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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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Most people haven't got a point of view they need to have it given to them––and what's more, they expect it from you.
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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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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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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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What do I think about the way most people dress? Most people are not something one thinks about.
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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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The first thing to do is to arrange to be born in Paris. After that, everything follows quite naturally.
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No one had a better sense of luxury than Coco Chanel, She really had the spirit of the 20th Century.
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I certainly didn't learn anything in school. My education was the world.
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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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When I discovered dancing, I learned to dream.
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I like to indulge myself by sitting up late without having to do anything in the morning.
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To be contented—that’s for the cows.
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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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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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Peanut butter is the greatest invention since Christianity.
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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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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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