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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Any faith of more than 1.6 billion people is going to have some of them who falsely justify actions on that faith.
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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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There are people who are good for letters and others that are good for numbers.
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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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You need to get outside of your comfort zone to write songs that are interesting, songs that are compelling, songs that are different from what other people are writing.
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Would it not be much better to have a president who deliberately lied to the people because he thought a war was essential than to have one who was so dumb as to be taken in by intelligence agencies, especially those who told him what he wanted to hear?
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In my 10 years, I never put a girl that was too skinny in French 'Vogue.'
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I take my inspiration for the song writing from little experiences, not even if I've experienced them myself but say if something has made me sad, I will use that emotion. I just use everyday life and write about it.
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Governments sometimes turn paranoid. And they fear things. And sometimes the thing they fear the most is the populace.
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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.
