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My mother worshipped at the altar of the accessory.
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Understated jewellery is not for me. It's too itsy-bitsy. My husband is lucky, as I've never had a yen for real jewels.
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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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I'm delighted that gay people 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 love a nice hot pink. I like thick lipstick, otherwise it doesn't look like you're wearing any.
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I don't dress to be stared at. I dress for myself.
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I'm a hopeless romantic. I buy things because I fall in love with them. I never buy anything just because it's valuable.
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Fashion has this youth mania. But 70-year-old ladies don't have 18-year-old bodies, and 18-year-olds don't have a 70-year-old's dollars.
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Style is attitude, attitude, attitude!
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The White House is the people's house. When you do historical restoration, that must be what it is.
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I'm not a pretty person. I don't like pretty, so I don't feel badly. Most of the world is not with me, but I don't care.
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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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You only have one trip. You might as well enjoy it.
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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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Being well-dressed is a wonderful thing, but I don't think it should be life threatening.
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Fashion and interior design are one and the same.
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You can be born with the talent to be an opera star, but you've got to work and practice it.
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I'm making a lot of noise as I walk.
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I think fashion is just part of my life and if it hadn't of been fashion then it would have been something else.
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I am not a fashionista, and I don't dress up. Usually if I'm at home, where I am now, I'm wearing a robe.
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I still have the dress I wore on the first date with my husband, which was more than 66 years ago. I still have it, and it still fits.
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The world is always full of promise.
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I'm not a minimalist, as I'm sure you've noticed.
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I like to improvise.
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It's more important to be happy than well-dressed.
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I was never a fan of Chanel. I liked it on other people. Some other people. All the ladies who were too plump and busty looked like little sausages.
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I say, dress to please yourself. Listen to your inner muse and take a chance. Wear something that says 'Here I am!' today.
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I didn't have children, but I never wanted children.
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Being attractive lasts longer than being pretty.
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Colour can raise the dead.
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Never be afraid to stop traffic.
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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'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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Shock can kill you. Shock is terrible. But what you've got to do is live in the present, which is what I have always done.
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I see myself as the world's oldest living teenager ... I try to get as much kick out of things as possible.
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It's better to be happy than to be well-dressed.
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I'm happy if I can help anybody. I'm more than happy to, but you have to find your own path.
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More is more and less is a bore.
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I always tell people I'm very large in Uzbekistan.
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People would always say to me, "Why are you wearing such large frames?" And I would say, "The bigger to see you."
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Self-exploration is very painful, but unless you do that, you will never know who you are and who you want to be.
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I can't tell people how to have style. No amount of money can buy you style. It's just instinctive.
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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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I just roll with the punches.
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I'm a color person, I've never been known to play it safe. Plus I like big bags. My eyeglasses are so big; they don't fit into smaller bags.
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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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I don't expect to find inspiration. It just sort of comes. Sometimes you step on a bug and you get inspired.
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There's different shopping in Paris than there is at a bazaar in Istanbul, but they're all wonderful.
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I love high-end designers, but a head-to-toe designer look for me is extremely boring. I've always mixed it up.
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