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" I am not someone who likes cocktail parties or large dinner parties, but I have to attend them often. I much prefer very small dinners with close friends. "
Tom Ford
Friends
Someone
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" When the youth of America gets together, amazing things happen. "
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" If you're at the Oscars, there's not a man on that red carpet who is not wearing make-up. Most straight actors I know get quite used to it. Even when they go out in real life they grab some sort of bronzer and they throw it on. They dye their eyebrows, they dye their lashes - they know the tricks. "
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" But as an adult working in the fashion industry, I struggle with materialism. And I'm one of the least materialistic people that exist, because material possessions don't mean much to me. They're beautiful, I enjoy them, they can enhance your life to a certain degree, but they're ultimately not important. "
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" There are many designers who have much greater talent as a designer than I do, but they may not have my drive, they may not work as hard, they may not have the focus, the desire... You have to have a talent because, at the end of the day, if the pants you design don't make someone's butt look great, they're not going to buy them. "
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" I couldn't have cared less about Gucci when I first went there - but soon after I arrived, I cared a lot. "
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" A lot of people think a high armhole is restrictive, but it gives you total movement because it's cut right up to your arm. "
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" There's nothing wrong with ankles. But only if you're playing football in the park. "
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" I am really a loner after all; I am really not a social person. Because of my job, people think I am out every night, but I really hate all that. I am somebody who likes to be alone and see some close friends. I am a shy and introspective person. "
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" I am totally fearless! Well, of course, I'm not totally fearless. I worry constantly and obsess over things, but I just don't let fear stand in the way of doing something that I really want to do. "
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" We have the Terminator as governor, and we had an actor as president, so why shouldn't we have a fashion designer as a senator? "
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" I love black dresses. I think everyone should own a lot, but black dresses don't sell online because on the computer they don't read like anything. "
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Black
" I hate tricky facial hair. If your facial hair is too spotty in places, shave. Just forget about it. "
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Forget
Hair
" You always notice a facelift on a woman. It's a tightness around the ears, and the scar is usually inside the ears. If I suspect it's been done, I usually move around until I can see it. But with a man, it actually pulls your beard and your sideburns back, and that's what's so strange. "
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" I probably do have an obsessive personality, but striving for perfection has served me well. "
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" I don't want to find myself designing for the press. "
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" I grew up in New Mexico, and the older I get, I have less need for contemporary culture and big cities and all the stuff we are bombarded with. I am happier at my ranch in the middle of nowhere watching a bug carry leaves across the grass, listening to silence, riding my horse, and being in open space. "
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" The world might be a very scary place if it were only run by Virgos. "
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" I guess I'm just one of these people who, when I decide I'm going to do something, I just do it. "
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" Fashion is harder than the film industry. You have to constantly be able to crank out hit after hit after hit on demand and on a very tight calendar. I've come back, I've lost it, I've come back again. It's really as good as your last collection. "
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" We've become a little spoiled with menswear in particular because, of course, we've come off a period in the '70s and '80s when Armani, which is very soft, dominated menswear. And we've become obsessed with comfort. I actually don't like that. "
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" A man should never wear shorts in the city. Flip-flops and shorts in the city are never appropriate. Shorts should only be worn on the tennis court or on the beach. "
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" I'm living the exact life I planned on living when I was five. My life has taken some turns and changes that I didn't anticipate, and it has brought me different things. I thought material things would bring me happiness, which they didn't. But through this, I have learned what things are important and what aren't. "
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" What works with your skin and eyes? Use that to zero in on your wardrobe. "
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