American - Businesswoman | August 29, 1921 -
You can be born with the talent to be an opera star, but you've got to work and practice it.
Iris Apfel
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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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I don't happen to approve of plastic surgery. I think God put plastic surgeons on this earth for good reasons - people get burned or people might have a nose like Pinocchio and that has to be fixed. But to just chop yourself up to look a few years younger? You could come out looking like a Picasso picture.
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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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I call myself a geriatric starlet.
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We did major work at the White House. But what people often don't understand is that when you do a historic restoration, you can't just do whatever you want. You work alongside the fine-arts commission and are obliged to create a replica of the past, as close as humanly possible. It's a historic institution, not a showhouse.
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I never buy what someone says is 'in' or a 'must-have.' I buy what makes me happy.
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You don't find out who you are unless you work at it.
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The fashion industry has done itself in by neglecting the 60- to 80-year-old market. They have the time and the economic resources. They want to go shopping.
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I hate being asked how I met my husband and very personal questions like that. I don't like that. People are too nosey. Intelligent questions I like, but sometimes people ask such silly, dopey ones.
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I was always known in my industry, and I always enjoyed a modicum of popularity.
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Anything that's feathery-looking, I love.
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