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" Technology is a wonderful thing, but I think it's violently misused. "

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" I never buy what someone says is 'in' or a 'must-have.' I buy what makes me happy. "

" I live in the Dark Ages, the 17th century. Actually, I would have loved to be in Paris in the early 20th century when the Ballets Russes were there and Chanel was designing. "

" I love high-end designers, but a head-to-toe designer look for me is extremely boring. I've always mixed it up. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Understated jewellery is not for me. It's too itsy-bitsy. My husband is lucky, as I've never had a yen for real jewels. "

" 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. "

" Nothing I ever did I expected to do. It just kind of happened. "

" 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. "

" You can be born with the talent to be an opera star, but you've got to work and practice it. "

" Anything that's feathery-looking, I love. "

" I like to improvise. "

" I get very involved with my things, and they are not standard equipment. "

" I just roll with the punches. "

" Nobody is original anymore. Nobody has any original style. "

" In my view, you can't go to the future if you haven't come from the past. "

" I swear on everything holy I do not know what's on the Internet about me. "

" I'm happy. I give thanks every morning that I can get up, that I still have my husband with me. I'm extremely grateful. After all, how many 93-year-old cover girls do you know? "

" My look is either very baroque or very Zen - everything in between makes me itch. "

" I'd rather go to a flea market than just about anything. It's the process I like - the same with getting dressed. If I've got someplace to be, I'll spend more time getting dressed than I spent at the actual event. Sometimes. Even in my own closet, I love to dig and search and find. "

" My mother was a big influence; she was exceedingly chic, completely dressed in a completely different manner than I did. I was a child of the Depression, so she taught me all about accessories, and I always tell everybody she worships at the altar of the accessory. "

" I think people try so hard to learn everything that they miss all the wonderful essentials. There is so much mystery in life that you should leave a mystery. "

" 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. "

" I still have the dress I wore on the first date with my husband, which was more than 66 years ago. I still have it, and it still fits. "

" I didn't have children, but I never wanted children. "

" I think people should express themselves more and not just buy what's in. While it can be very beautiful, and it may suit you perfectly, I'm sure it doesn't suit everyone in the same way. I like people who express themselves and are more individualistic. "

" I've always loved to help people, young people in particular. "

" Self-exploration is very painful, but unless you do that, you will never know who you are and who you want to be. "

" I'm not a pretty person. I don't like pretty, so I don't feel badly. Most of the world is not with me, but I don't care. "