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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.

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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Blocked
Something
Kill
Things
Inside
Child
Clear
Read
Spirit
Anything
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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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Everything in life is elusive.
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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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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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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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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.
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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 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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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 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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The fame you earn has a different taste from the fame that is forced upon you
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I'm always in love. If it's not with a man, it's something else. I love beauty. I love the sky I see outside the window. There's so much beauty in the world.
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I was fearless. Wild horses couldn't stop me.
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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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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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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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You must always have great, secret, big fat hopes for yourself in love and in life. The bigger, the better.
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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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The only thing that would ever embarrass me would be something I would write that would be badly written.
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