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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.

Iris Apfel

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Iris Apfel
Age: 103
Born: 1921
Born: August 29
Businessperson
Interior Designer
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Queens
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I had to be my own person and live my own life if I wanted to be happy, and I just did it.
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I just never want to completely grow up.
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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.
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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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If you don't have any individuality and you're happy just being one of the girls (or boys) be my guest. I'm not the fashion police. I won't fault you.
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The world is always full of promise.
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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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When you go to a nice restaurant, you want to be relaxed and have a drink and everything, you want to look at people who look well. You don't want to look at some slob with an open shirt and a hairy chest. At least I don't.
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I love a nice hot pink. I like thick lipstick, otherwise it doesn't look like you're wearing any.
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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 was in art school since I was five years old. I've always been to art school.
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To me there are lots more important things in the world than just having the right shoes!
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I always feel that if you're gonna be uncomfortable and unhappy in something, just because you think it's in or it's chic, I would advise you to be happy rather than well-dressed. It's better to be happy.
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When the fun goes out of getting dressed, you might as well be dead.
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Technologically I live in the 17th century. I have a very simple cell phone. I say I live through the kindness of strangers, because if they see something on the Net they type it out and send it to me.
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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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I'm not a minimalist, as I'm sure you've noticed.
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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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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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