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" I've never mentioned this, but when I was at Parsons teaching, the other design disciplines, they don't like fashion design. They see it as very nineteenth-century. "

Tim Gunn

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Past

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" Part of what was in the ether all around me growing up, until I was between 19 and 20, was a terrible, debilitating stutter. It was part of what made me very reclusive as a kid. "

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Growing Up

Growing

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" Life is not a solo act. It's a huge collaboration, and we all need to assemble around us the people who care about us and support us in times of strife. "

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People

" I learned early on in teaching how easy it is to hurt a young person and that's never my intention. "

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" I do things like hem a pair of pants, I do my own tailoring but I wouldn't attempt a jacket. "

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Jacket

Pants

" There's nothing I like better than going to my apartment, closing the door, cooking my little dinner for one and just tuning out. My apartment really is my haven. It's a nest where I go to heal. "

" I love HGTV. I love the Food Network. "

" Whoever's designing for plus-size doesn't get it. The entire garment needs to be reconceived. You can't just take a size 8 and make it larger. "

" But if fashion were easy, wouldn't everybody look great? "

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" Take the high road. No matter how much strife, and consternation, frustration and anger you might be confronted with - don't go to that level. "

" I just don't like conspicuous consumption. I find it distasteful. "

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Consumption

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" I have to have my coffee. I probably have three cups a day, but only before noon. "