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And it came to me, and I knew what I had to have before my soul would rest. I wanted to belong - to belong to my mother. And in return - I wanted my mother to belong to me.

Gloria Vanderbilt

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Gloria Vanderbilt
Age: 95 †
Born: 1924
Born: February 20
Died: 2019
Died: June 17
Actor
Artist
Autobiographer
Businessperson
Designer
Diarist
Fashion Designer
Novelist
Painter
Socialite
Television Actor
Writer
Manhattan borough
New York City
Gloria Laura Vanderbilt
Gloria Laura Morgan Vanderbilt
Gloria Laura Madeleine Sophie Vanderbilt
Gloria Stokowski
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Soul
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The only thing that would ever embarrass me would be something I would write that would be badly written.
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I've been really very fortunate with the men I've been involved with. They've always really treated me very, very wonderfully. And whenever anything broke up, I was always the one to leave. So I think I've been really very, very lucky.
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I love to decorate and redecorate. Now it's called interior design, but the term decorating is fine with me.
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When I'm traveling to promote my book, I feel like an artful impostor. What I really am is when I'm in my (painter's) studio and when I'm writing. With actors, it's the same thing. They're kind of artful impostors in public. When you get to know them, they're different people.
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I do think all art is autobiographical, and I do think I know quite a bit about women. I don't know anything about men.
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Nobody should get married at 17.
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I've resolved so many things in my life. I like the idea of showing that you can go through a lot and still be on your feet, still be working, and still be positive about life.
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Art brings a message into a room. It should make us perceive in a new way - either through color, form or narrative content - something we had not perceived before... and perhaps reveal something to you about yourself.
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Some of us are born with a sense of loss. It is not acquired as we grow. It is already there from the beginning, and it pervades us throughout our lives.
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I love to think that animals and humans and plants and fishes and trees and stars and the moon are all connected.
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The minute that you bring a unicorn into a story, you know that it's a fairy tale or a fable, because unicorns don't exist as animals. They exist as fantasy creatures.
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I don't read anything about myself. As a child, there was something in me that was just instinctive. I want to be clear in my spirit, and I don't want to be blocked by things that get inside of you and kill you.
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You breathe in and out you breathe in and you breathe out, and you live one moment into the next moment, and then time goes by, and you find you're able to put one foot in front of the other.
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When I was being photographed, I always felt very much in my own skin. That's probably one of the reasons why I enjoy being photographed.
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I do spend money. I like to spend money, on houses - on furnishing houses. And I love to give presents to people. It's just in my nature to be that way. I always spent money I had. And I always spent what I made. I'm not stingy.
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Everything in life is elusive.
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I was fearless. Wild horses couldn't stop me.
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You must always have great, secret, big fat hopes for yourself in love and in life. The bigger, the better.
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