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You can't just say, I'm gonna have style. You have to work at it. It's intuitive some people have it, and some people can work on it all day long, and it will never happen.

Iris Apfel

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Iris Apfel
Age: 103
Born: 1921
Born: August 29
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Interior Designer
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New York
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The world is always full of promise.
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When you don't dress like everybody else, you don't have to think like everybody else.
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My mother worshipped at the altar of the accessory.
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I think fashion today is horrible. Just open your eyes and look! What's good about it? There's no originality. Here and there, there is, but in general, en masse, there's very little creativity and very little originality. It's kind of boring. Everybody looks alike. Everybody seems to strive to look alike.
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I'm delighted that gay people now want to get married and I say why not! It's nobody's business and I would happily give my blessing.
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I find that if I get up and push myself, I get lost in what I'm doing, and I forget about everything else until I stop doing it.
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I think that if you have to work very hard at dressing up and it makes you nervous or uptight, then you won't look very well because you won't be comfortable. I think it's much better to be comfortable and happy than well dressed.
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I never just went to look for clothes and style I always find that wherever I go.
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You're not pretty, and you'll never be pretty. But, it doesn't matter. You have something much better. You have style.
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You have to observe a few simple rules in dressing, which are really not rules it's just being appropriate. If you're 70 and want to wear miniskirts, 70-year-old knees ain't pretty!
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