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“Chutney is marvelous. I'm mad about it. To me, it's very imperial.”
“When I discovered dancing, I learned to dream.”
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“Money has nothing to do with style at all, but naturally it helps every situation.”
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“Never fear being vulgar, just boring, middle class or dull.”
“Prettiness is not a rent you pay for occupying a space marked 'female'”
“The hottest thing in the world is to wear pants with stockings.”
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“I read everything! I would have read the phone book if you put it in front of me. I just read.”
“I went to work to make money, not because I was bored. It was money that I wanted.”
“It's only intelligent to wish to look after yourself properly.”
“I've always remained totally myself, which is to say, without an idea... of what to do.”
“I'm for everybody. There are no set rules. But if one's not a joiner. To hell with all of them!”
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“You don't have to be born beautiful to be wildly attractive.”
“The only real elegance is in the mind; if you've got that, the rest really comes from it.”
“Elegance is innate. It has nothing to do with being well dressed. Elegance is refusal.”
“Poor, darling fellow - he died of food. He was killed by the dinner table.”
“What do I think about the way most people dress? Most people are not something one thinks about.”
“Blue jeans are the most beautiful things since the gondola.”
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“The bikini is the most important thing since the atom bomb.”
“Pink is the navy blue of India.”
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“I always wear my sweater back-to-front; it is so much more flattering.”
“No one cuts backs like he did. No one knows what a back is anymore.”
“It’s not about the dress you wear, but it’s about the life you lead in the dress.”
“There's only one very good life and that's the life you know you want and you make it yourself.”