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One of the goals of life is to try and be in touch with one's most personal themes-the values, the ideas, styles, colors that are the touchstones of one's own individual life, its real texture and substance.

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Gloria Vanderbilt
Age: 95 †
Born: 1924
Born: February 20
Died: 2019
Died: June 17
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Fashion Designer
Novelist
Painter
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Manhattan borough
New York City
Gloria Laura Vanderbilt
Gloria Laura Morgan Vanderbilt
Gloria Laura Madeleine Sophie Vanderbilt
Gloria Stokowski
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To be pregnant has been for me each time the supreme joy ... I was doing the greatest thing in the world without having to do anything -- all I had to do was be.
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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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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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Nobody should get married at 17.
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I was fearless. Wild horses couldn't stop me.
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There's a saying I read recently I painted it on the fireplace and in my studio: Be kind to everyone you meet, for everyone is fighting a great battle. We all are. Everyone.
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Everything in life is elusive.
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In mythology and palmistry, the left hand is called the dreamer because the ring finger on the left hand leads directly to the heart. I find it a very poetic idea. And thats why I only wear nail polish on my left ring finger.
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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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To be happy--one must find one's bliss
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When I was photographed, I didn't feel I was acting. I just felt I was being photographed. It sort of taught me things about myself that I didn't know and was trying to find out.
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If you've never had a mother or a father, you grow up seeking something you're never going to find, ever. You seek it in love and in people and in beauty.
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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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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'm the girliest girl you are ever going to meet.
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I was born during an eclipse. I believe very much in astrology. If you were born on an eclipse it indicates your destiny is chaotic.
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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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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 think that animals and humans and plants and fishes and trees and stars and the moon are all connected.
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I've had many, many loves. I always feel that something wonderful is going to happen. And it always does.
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