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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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Diana Vreeland
Age: 83 †
Born: 1906
Born: July 29
Died: 1989
Died: August 2
Editor
Fashion Editor
Journalist
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Paris
France
D. V. Vreeland
Diana Vreland
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When I discovered dancing, I learned to dream.
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Before even the technique, there is a dream. Chanel had it. The dream is everything.
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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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People who eat white bread have no dreams.
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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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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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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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Within every girl is the possibility of arousing emotion. Without emotion there is no beauty.
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A lie to get out of something, or take an advantage for oneself, that’s one thing but a lie to make life more interesting—well, that’s entirely different.
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Pleasure is everything.
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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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If it isn't a passion, it isn't burning, it isn't on fire, you haven't lived.
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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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