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" You never make it, especially in this industry where you constantly churn out stuff, things. You never finish. "
Tom Ford
Where
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Things
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" It's like everything in your life is wonderful, but you have so much wonderful - this is all going to sound horrible - but when you have so much wonderful, it isn't wonderful because you don't actually have time to enjoy it. "
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Enjoy
You
Wonderful
" I was not popular. I was the kid in school that was bullied. "
Tom Ford
Popular
School
Bullied
" I think that monogamy is artificial. I do not think it's something that comes naturally to us. "
Tom Ford
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I Think
Us
" 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. "
Tom Ford
Space
Culture
I Am
" I think people are sick of trends changing every six months - not because we're tired of them, but just for the sake of change. There is so much junk in the world: junk TV, junk movies, all those junk magazines with the same people on the cover. "
Tom Ford
World
Change
People
" A lot of the things I did - it's not going to sound anything but egotistical - if I'm lucky and I did the right thing, they will be at Zara way before I can get them in the store, and I don't like that. "
Tom Ford
The Right Thing
I Can
Lucky
" What works with your skin and eyes? Use that to zero in on your wardrobe. "
Tom Ford
Wardrobe
Use
Zero
" There's nothing wrong with ankles. But only if you're playing football in the park. "
Tom Ford
Nothing
You
Wrong
" This sounds crazy, but I know so many famous people, I'm just not intimidated by anyone. I feel really comfortable with it. "
Tom Ford
Just
Crazy
Famous
" There aren't many strong or charismatic candidates today, because many people can't withstand the scrutiny. "
Tom Ford
Because
People
Today
" I just want to make beautiful, glamorous clothes. "
Tom Ford
Want
Clothes
Beautiful
" I was on the train from London to Paris, and all of a sudden it just popped into my head: I'm going to do the Don Loper fashion show from 'I Love Lucy.' "
Tom Ford
Paris
Fashion
Head
" I live, I shop almost exclusively on the Internet. I've bought cars on the Internet. I watch television, I do everything on it. I even watch my son online. "
Tom Ford
Watch
Internet
Live
" My customer has her own sense of style and knows herself well. My goal is to help women become the best version of themselves. "
Tom Ford
Help
Style
Goal
" 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. "
Tom Ford
Job
Alone
Hate
" When I was a little kid, all I wanted to do was to escape what I thought was the country and get to a city. Probably film and television had influenced me so much, I really thought the key to happiness was living a very artificial life in a penthouse in New York with martini glasses. "
Tom Ford
Life
Thought
City
" I don't do shows. I don't have reviews. I'm not putting the clothes on every celebrity so that by the time they reach the store the customers are sick of seeing them. "
Tom Ford
Reach
Clothes
Time
" Fashion is much more collaborative than one might think. You have to have an idea and vision, and you have to communicate that vision to a team of people, and you have to create an environment that allows those people to give the best that they can give. "
Tom Ford
Team
Think
You
" I am a spiritual person in an eastern religion kind of way. I learned that happiness for all of us is a switch that you flick in your brain. It doesn't have anything to do with getting a new house, a new car, a new girlfriend, or a new pair of shoes. Our culture is very much about that; we are never happy with what we have today. "
Tom Ford
Culture
Today
Car
" The dynamics of film directing and fashion design - in the ways that I've done it - were not dissimilar. "
Tom Ford
Directing
Film
Done
" 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. "
Tom Ford
Back
Good
Lost
" 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. "
Tom Ford
Me
Struggle
People
" 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. "
Tom Ford
Work
Great
Day
" I'm a believer in fate and in fulfilling your destiny. I've always had a kind of inner voice that I have learned to listen to. "
Tom Ford
Your
Destiny
Fate
" I hate going out for lunch during a workday because it slows down my pace and ruins my rhythm. I prefer to eat at my desk. Actually, I wander around the design studio with a plate in my hand as I dine on, for example, salmon sashimi and a salad of tomatoes and mozzarella. I often have a bit of dark chocolate after lunch. "
Tom Ford
Lunch
Design
Hate
" I am actually extremely casual in certain environments. But one of the reasons I like living in London, I like the formality of it, as compared to the formality of America - or informality. I like putting on a suit. I like putting on a tie. "
Tom Ford
I Am
America
Tie
" College campuses were once a hotbed of political activity. "
Tom Ford
Political
Activity
College
" I believe in living life the way that you want to live it every day, and if you do that, you don't really need to have New Year's resolutions. "
Tom Ford
Believe
Living
You
" I guess I'm just one of these people who, when I decide I'm going to do something, I just do it. "
Tom Ford
Going
People
Just Do It
" It's really never fair to judge people because none of us know what's going on inside anyone else's head. "
Tom Ford
Know
Never
Fair