Andre Leon Talley Quotes
People love fashion exhibits because they can fantasize. They can respond to a dress even if they can never wear a dress like that.
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Nothing earth-shattering has happened in men's fashion. How much can you do with men's clothes?
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If you love things or ideas or people that contradict each other, you have to be prepared to fight for every square inch of intellectual real estate you occupy.
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My people were homesteading in Colorado before Emancipation.
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What I find so interesting about people is the choices they make, and how that effects their behavior, their sense of self and their relationships.
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People say, 'Oh, politics is so polarized today,' and I'm thinking... '1861, that was polarized.'
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I felt that Balanchine was my father towards me. He was the person I most admired and looked up to.
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There's more to life than being an actor in a Hollywood movie. I'm not going to adapt my life after that existence, where a lot of people do. And they get the publicist, and they get all that stuff, and it becomes them. I think it's a stupid way to live your life. A really dumb way to live your life.
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Cinema is a thankless industry where sometimes to appear on the cinematic scenery is a thing for late bloomers and people who are very patient. The places are accounted, and the space is often unwelcoming. Money is rare, and independent voices are muted by the almost complete absence of risk takers.
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Who has connections to Connecticut? That's where rich people go to live the rest of their life in the woods.
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I write songs that are like diary entries. I have to do it in order to feel sane.
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I fell even more deeply in love with Tolkien's legendarium after studying Old English literature at uni, as I got a sense of the historical events and cultures that Tolkien used to create his world. My favourite of his imaginary locations is Lothlorien.
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When people are very damaged, they can often meet the world with a kind of defiance.
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I am not a celebrity. I work with celebrities, and it is very difficult. When a celebrity wears a dress, it's good for business, so brands fight for the red carpet. Me? I don't like it, because fashion becomes a job about dressing celebrities. And it's a bit boring.
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From a very young age, music was very much in my house. I would sit with my mom, with the old LPs, listening to The Beatles and Carly Simon and Lionel Richie. The old LPs used to have the lyrics. From there, I would put on dance and music displays for my family, just to entertain them and make people laugh and smile.
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The Dutch are a very practical people.
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Some people care too much. I think it's called love.
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If people are looking forward to my films, then I am happy, and I must be doing something right.
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People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.
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I define 'social thriller' as thriller/horror movies where the ultimate villain is society.
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One thing I can't stand is late kidnappers.
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My writing has changed a lot. From 16 to 19, I've changed a lot. My kind of writing in the beginning was very observational; now it's grown very personal for me. I use it as a diary in many ways.
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If you are born black, it is better to be born now than in any other time in United States history. My grandson is black. His life is a different life than if he had been born when I was born.
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People love fashion exhibits because they can fantasize. They can respond to a dress even if they can never wear a dress like that.
