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I'm very curious and being childlike is vital in our industry

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I was always making things. I made model airplanes and did a number of hands-on activities. I liked creating in some form or another, not realizing what it was all about.
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There were neighbors that I played with and did all the things that children do. I did mow the lawn. I did help with various things that needed to be done to occupy my time.
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The class situation [at Art Institute on Elmwood Avenue] was such that one would be very much on their own to paint or draw. The faculty was roving to give opinions or help out technically, which all the faculty did very well.
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It was only when I got to high school and was in the art program that my artistic talent was recognized. The art program was directed by a wonderful and a very important person in my life - Charlotte Ranger, who was referred to as Mrs. Ranger. She had been teaching in the school for many years.
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I was always kind of naïve, and really needed to be given some direction.
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When knowledge is scant or conflicting, folklore takes over.
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Christianity began in Palestine as an experience, it moved to Greece and became a philosophy, it moved to Italy and became an institution, it moved to Europe and became a culture, and it moved to America and became a business! We've left the experience long behind.
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Upon graduation, in the yearbook I was voted Most likely to succeed. which I know was credited to my artistic achievements.
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Maybe that's what I've based my career on: getting up earlier than everyone else so I get an extra couple of hours.
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I developed friends in the community that were in walking distance or a bicycle ride away, so that I socialized and did a lot of things that children do in their early years.
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One association with the arts that I vividly remember was a magazine called Normal Instructor, a teachers' magazine, that Miss George would hold up with illustrations of great artworks like [Vincent] van Gogh and Rembrandt [van Rijn].
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People, even children, aren't really afraid of change. They're afraid of not being prepared for change.
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Fashion is about today and tomorrow. Nobody cares how good you used to be
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I was engaged in all the required courses of math and geometry, but the area that I blossomed in was the art program.
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My parents' names were Florian and Mabel Smith. My mother's maiden name was Dersam. They were of German heritage and were part of a family community with my grandparents and uncles and relatives. I was an only child.
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Being born in '31 was during the Depression and in my earlier youth World War II took place - so it was not the best of times, and yet I don't recall ever having experiences that were a burden.
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My parents never prevented me from doing anything, but they didn't have the knowledge of the arts that Mrs. Ranger had.
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I got the letter about becoming a Sir in 2000, the same year that Pauline asked me if we could finally get married. My assistant, Colette, called up and it turned out both the wedding and the Buck House ceremony were happening on the same day. I was knighted at 11 and married at four. She became an instant Lady.
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Even today, the bigger the city, the better. That's why I live in New York.
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At one point I had dreams of being in the school band, but I didn't play an instrument that qualified me, and that was a problem. I always had fantasies to be part of that, but I did take my piano lessons quite seriously.
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