Andre Leon Talley Quotes - Page 2

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• Russia is a place of great culture. If you've read Tolstoy's "War and Peace", Dostoyevsky, Pushkin, Chekhov...the culture of the great Russian literature is amazing. The human narrative you get out of "War and Peace" is universal.

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  War, Russia, Culture

  Source: wwd.com

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• Waiting in line for something mundane is very boring. Waiting for my doctor to see me and waiting for my dentist to see me, yes, that is boring.

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  Doctors, Waiting In Line, Lines

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• First Ladies have always been held like specimens under a media microscope.

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  Media, Firsts, Microscopes

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• I suppose the most daring thing I've ever done is try to water ski. And that was not successful.

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  Successful, Water, Trying

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• I don't understand the world of the Internet. I just type up on my computer.

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  World, Computer, Internet

  Source: wwd.com

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• It's incorrect to assume you can be a fashion editor because you blog, if you don't have experience to look at fashion in a professional way.

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  Fashion, Editors, Looks

  "Q&A: André Leon Talley". Interview with Luisa Zargani, wwd.com. February 28, 2013.

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• In my day you didn't speak until spoken to.

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  Speak

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• I think it's important that models be healthy.

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  Thinking, Healthy, Important

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• I love Russian culture. I don't know the young Russia, I'm not at all familiar with young Russia, but the old school Russia is good enough for me for the moment.

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  School, Russia, Culture

  "Q&A: André Leon Talley". Interview with Luisa Zargani, wwd.com. February 28, 2013.

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• At an early age I discovered the beauty in pictures in 'Vogue' magazine and Ebony magazine, and I would read 'The New York Times.' I had to make my own world within my world because I was an only child.

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  New York, Children, Vogue Magazine

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• People have always been fascinated by people in the public eye and what they wear, what they are doing, but not in a tabloid way. Tabloid celebrities are a turnoff. A lot of celebrities...you wonder why they are celebrities.

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  Eye, People, Tabloids

  Source: wwd.com

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• I'm usually at home and in bed by 10 o'clock. I do not want to be out at anybody's New Year's Eve party.

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  New Year, Party, Home

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• I just need green. I need to wake up and see grass and squirrels. I don't want to see skyscrapers.

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  Squirrels, Needs, Wake Up

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• Snooki and Honey Boo Boo. These are big celebrities in the U.S. You want to throw up.

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  Honey Boo Boo, Want, Bigs

  Interview with Luisa Zargani, wwd.com. February 28, 2013.

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• Reality TV, although I'm a part of it, I think reality TV is a terrible thing.

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  Reality, Thinking, Tvs

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• The late Estee Lauder says you can never wear white shoes after Labor Day. But of course, in today's world, that does not exist.

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  Shoes, White, Labor Day

  "A history of the little black dress" by Ann Hoevel, www.cnn.com. October 2, 2012.

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• The happiest moments of my childhood were spent on my grandmother's front porch in Durham, N.C., or at her sister's farmhouse in Orange County, where chickens paraded outside the kitchen's screen door and hams were cured in the smokehouse.

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  Grandmother, Doors, Orange

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• Look at 'American Idol,' which I don't look at. Those winners haven't become household names except for Jennifer Hudson, and she was a reject. You can't aim to be a household name. You just have to be successful.

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  Successful, Rejects You, Idols

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• Mrs. Obama has a hug - a sincere and friendly embrace - that has become familiar to countless supporters from coast to coast. And when she talks to you, she focuses all her calm attention on your face.

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  Hug, Friendly, Attention

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• It's always great to have things from France at a wedding. It's symbolic of style, of culture, of taste.

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  Style, Culture, Taste

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• One my favorite things is to go to the provinces of Russia and see the 18th century wood churches with the onion dome architecture. These humble wonders of incredible imagination of architects that were obviously not living in places like Paris or London, but they've created these amazing churches.

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  Humble, Russia, Paris

  "Q&A: André Leon Talley". Interview with Luisa Zargani, wwd.com. February 28, 2013.

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• Fashion illustrator Antonio Lopez was a major part of my early career.

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  Fashion, Careers, Antonio

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• Like Hillary Clinton before her, Mrs. Obama has always been a working woman. She is a lawyer turned hospital administrator turned political right hand. It is a unique resume.

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  Unique, Hands, Political

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• I only watch MSNBC for the news.

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  Watches, News

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• On 9/11, that morning, I was in a Christian Dior Couture appointment at the Hotel Pierre.

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  Christian, Morning, Dior

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