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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.

Iris Apfel

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Iris Apfel
Age: 103
Born: 1921
Born: August 29
Businessperson
Interior Designer
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Queens
New York
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If you put something together and it doesn't look so good, the fashion police are not going to come and take you away. And if they do, you might have some fun in jail.
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Everything that's happened to me, nothing's been planned. I've never had a business plan. I just kind of fell into it, and I liked it, and I took a chance. I took a lot of chances in my life.
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I was in art school since I was five years old. I've always been to art school.
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When you're older, no matter how good your humor is you don't always feel perky and peppy. But if you sit home all day and brood about it, it gets worse.
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I'm not a minimalist, as I'm sure you've noticed.
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Style means you have a real curiosity about yourself and then you express it. Having style is not copying somebody else.
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I don't think dressing has anything to do with numbers. I know people of 30 who act like they're 97, and I have a few old-bag friends who are very hip.
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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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If you hair is done properly and you're wearing good shoes, you can get anyway with anything.
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You have to look in the mirror and see yourself. If it feels good, then I know it's for me. I don't dress to be stared at, I dress for myself.
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In my view you can't go to the future if you haven't come from the past.
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To find out who you are is like putting yourself on a psychiatric couch, but you have nobody to help you. Really it isn't easy. I was talking with my nephew this morning and he gave me one of the best quotes I've heard in years 'Personal style is curiosity about oneself.'
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My look is either very baroque or very Zen – everything in between makes me itch.
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I'm not going to be a rebel and offend anybody, but I'm not going to live in somebody else's image.
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There are so many empty headed people in the fashion business who take themselves way too seriously and I don't think I am at all like one of them. To me there are lots more important things in the world than just having the right shoes!
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I think if women put some more of the time and money they put on their heads in their heads, they’d be better off.
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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, don't you?
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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 don't believe in rules. It's different for everybody. Everyone has to make their own decision and find out what's comfortable for them.
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Fashion you can buy, but style you possess.
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