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" My look is either very baroque or very Zen - everything in between makes me itch. "
Iris Apfel
Itch
Zen
Me
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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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" You can change the look of an outfit so easily by changing the kind of jewellery you wear. If you have a basic outfit on - a black sweater and skirt or a simple black dress - you can go from the office to a cocktail party at night just by changing your jewellery. It helps if you change your shoes as well. "
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" I like to improvise. "
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" I am not a fashionista, and I don't dress up. Usually if I'm at home, where I am now, I'm wearing a robe. "
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" Fashion has this youth mania. But 70-year-old ladies don't have 18-year-old bodies, and 18-year-olds don't have a 70-year-old's dollars. "
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" I don't do very much for beauty. I use very simple things on my skin. I haven't got time. I would always get facials and then come home laden with product, and pay a lot of money and never use it. Anyway, one day a dermatologist told me to use Cetaphil to clean my face and as a moisturizer, and that's what I do. "
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" People say, 'You have inspired me, you've given me courage...' They've gone so far as to say, 'You've changed my life!' And I would come back and say to my husband, 'I can't understand it - what kind of poor little life did she have if I had to come and change it?' "
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" You don't find out who you are unless you work at it. "
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Find
" Anything that's feathery-looking, I love. "
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" You have to push yourself when you're older because it's very easy to fall into the trap. You start to fall apart - you just have to do your best to paste yourself together. I think doing things and being active is very important. When your mind is busy, you don't hurt so much. "
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Best
Do Your Best
Together
" 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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Fashion
" Nobody is original anymore. Nobody has any original style. "
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" Being an individual takes effort. Most people are pretty lazy. And that's OK! I mean, there are more important things than fashion. If it's going to stress you out to have a sense of style, don't do it. The important thing is to be comfortable so you can get on with your life. "
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Life
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" Just because you get to a certain number doesn't mean you have to roll up into a ball and wait for the grim reaper. We were put on this earth to do something! If you stop using your brain, at any age, it is going to stop working. It's like if you stop using your hand, it will atrophy. I think doing nothing is a curse. "
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Age
You
Earth
" I don't expect to find inspiration. It just sort of comes. Sometimes you step on a bug and you get inspired. "
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Sometimes
Step
Inspiration
" If you don't learn constantly, you don't grow, and you will wither. Too many people wither on the vine. Sure, it gets a little harder as you get older, but new experiences and new challenges keep it fresh. "
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People
Challenges
Grow
" You learn as you grow up, if you're intelligent - or even three-quarter witted - that there's no free lunch. You pay for things in various ways. Living, loving, everything else is a matter of the same principles: you learn to work with what you have. "
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Living
Free
" You can't try to be somebody you're not; that's not style. If someone says, 'Buy this - you'll be stylish,' you won't be stylish because you won't be you. You have to learn who you are first, and that's painful. "
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" Fashion really is women's liberation in a lot of ways. Look at how many women in this country are depressed about how they look and how they think they have to look! It's really sad. And it's not about money. "
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" It's better to be happy than to be well-dressed. "
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Be Happy
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" Shock can kill you. Shock is terrible. But what you've got to do is live in the present, which is what I have always done. "
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" When you don't dress like everybody else, you don't have to think like everybody else. "
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" I get very involved with my things, and they are not standard equipment. "
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" I used to love to create outfits, and I still do - I just don't have the time. How can you wear one thing and never wear it again? Even my wedding dress - I had a dress made that I could wear again. I'm a child of the depression, so I'm very, very practical. "
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" I swear on everything holy I do not know what's on the Internet about me. "
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Know
" I've never seen anything like the way some young people behave. They go out on a date, and they're sitting opposite each other at a table, and they're not looking at each other, and they text each other as though they're deaf-mutes. It's insane. "
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" I mix everything up. A museum curator once said to me that there is a great jazz component to the way I do things because good jazz is improvisation and draws elements from all different cultures. And that's the way I do everything - the way I dress and decorate. "
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" I have ideas that I think might be amusing, and I try them, and if they look right, I carry them out, and if they don't, I throw them out and try something else. I don't agonize about it. "
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" I go out in New York, and I think, boy, you can look at someone and pretty much determine their zip code. Everyone seems to want to conform. I wonder, are they all just button-pressers, on the Internet all day long? I don't know. "
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" I wasn't interested at all in doing a documentary. I was not a public figure. "
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