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All Quotes by author - Hailey Gates

" A sudden intimacy occurs when someone does your hair. "

" At one point, we were across the street from the Sharon Tate house; at another, we lived in Elvis's old Bel Air bachelor pad. It was where he first met the Beatles. "

" Everybody gets dressed every day, and whatever you decide to get dressed in that morning is communicating something. "

" Fashion is unique. It's a leveler, not a divider. "

" Fashion weeks tend to be places of refuge for outsiders. "

" Having long hair has allowed me to enter orthodox or religiously conservative situations with slightly more ease. "

" High fashion has become representative of stability in unstable places; that allows you to have a voice in the world stage. "

" I actually find it a lot easier to interview people I don't agree with because I'm far more curious about how they've arrived at that place. "

" I always struggle auditioning, actually, because I'm so obsessed with era-appropriate clothing. "

" I ate better in Liberia than I did in Ohio. "

" If you take the fashion out of it, clothing has a lot of information - about how we feel about ourselves, how we'd like to feel about ourselves, and what we'd like to be: If you show up to an interview in sweatpants and a T-shirt, I'm going to deal with you in a really different way. "

" I have always been very into pagan hairstyles. If I were alive a long time ago, I would probably have been burned at the stake. "

" I have a 'Mailer-Breslin and the 51st State' poster, and a neon-pink sign of Raoul's in SoHo, one of my favorite restaurants. "

" I'm not a gun person by any stretch of the imagination, and it's not something I feel comfortable participating in. "

" I'm not a journalist. I have not gone to school for this. "

" In China, because Chinese is a tonal language, it can be kind of hard to follow people's emotional tracks. There was one moment where a woman I was interviewing just sort of burst into tears, and I can usually sort of tell when things are coming on, and in that moment, it was very unexpected. "

" In China, I had my body lit on fire. And in Russia, I took a bath in reindeer blood, which apparently had some kind of youth-enhancing elements. "

" I never thought I would go to Gaza. It's incredibly difficult to get into, and when you get there, it's a war zone. Then they have this beach, and there's this incredible, vibrant beach culture there, which is something that I grew up with in Southern California. "

" I think, in a lot of ways, we underestimate how much clothing plays a part in achieving our identities and in how we want the world to deal with us. "

" I think why I was attracted to making something with Vice is that level of intimacy that you get as the viewer, getting to see some of that production element where we don't exactly know what we're doing, where we're going, or even if it's a good idea. "

" It's really just my Hammurabi code of journalism ethics, that I don't want to ask someone to do something that I won't do myself. "

" It's wild, how many places of conflict that have fashion weeks. It's becoming some sort of marker for these countries that says, 'We are in conversation with the rest of the world.' "

" I was, like, a really embarrassing, precocious child. "

" I was writing a lot even as a kid. "

" I would wear entirely one color: tutus, furry pants. It was totally outrageous. My family was deeply embarrassed to be seen with me. "

" I wrote a play that I directed and I was in, and I paid for the sets and the costumes and to put it up in a theater all through modeling. It really afforded me a lot of creative control in my life. "

" Maintaining a sense of humor is key to getting people to also focus on the crises at hand. "

" My parents separated when I was young, and as a result, my father had to learn how to braid our hair on the nights my sisters and I would stay with him. We would arrive to school the next morning with these incredibly endearing lopsided braids he had fashioned. This may have expedited the process of my learning how to braid my own hair. "

" Some of us are lucky enough to choose what we wear, and some of us don't have that luxury, but we all are communicating something to the world around us by what we wear, no matter if it's sweatpants or a tuxedo. "

" The Congo is so fun. The ideal body type coveted by women in the Congo is this extremely curvaceous body. They're going through a number of extreme measures to get that kind of body form, and one of them is by using bouillon cubes. "

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