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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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Gloria Vanderbilt
Age: 95 †
Born: 1924
Born: February 20
Died: 2019
Died: June 17
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Writer
Manhattan borough
New York City
Gloria Laura Vanderbilt
Gloria Laura Morgan Vanderbilt
Gloria Laura Madeleine Sophie Vanderbilt
Gloria Stokowski
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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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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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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'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 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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Everything in life is elusive.
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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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The fame you earn has a different taste from the fame that is forced upon you
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I was fearless. Wild horses couldn't stop me.
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I'll always remain friends with men I've been in love with. Each one gave me so much, in so many ways.
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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 love to decorate and redecorate. Now it's called interior design, but the term decorating is fine with me.
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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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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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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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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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To be happy--one must find one's bliss
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