Andre Leon Talley Quotes

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Andre Leon Talley

Profession : Editor

Birth : October 16, 1949

I will sit in the car on the way to a meeting and just smile. I really mean that. It helps you get through life. If you have nothing to say, smile. Look up at the sky and smile. Just be grateful.

Andre Leon Talley

Beauty is health. Health is beauty.

Andre Leon Talley

I just need green. I need to wake up and see grass and squirrels. I don't want to see skyscrapers.

Andre Leon Talley

I'd like to be remembered as someone who made a difference in the lives of young people - that I nurtured someone and taught them to pursue their dreams and their careers, to leave a legacy.

Andre Leon Talley

I like the idea of being warm and secure. That's what home should be. That you have a sense of warmth, security, love, and you love the things around you and surround yourself with beauty.

Andre Leon Talley

I have always admired stylishly confident women who dress with great authority. This lifelong love of elegance began with the humble wardrobe of my late grandmother Mrs. Bennie Frances Davis.

Andre Leon Talley

I do believe there's a heaven. I do believe that God has given me the resilience and the survival skills to withstand the chiffon trenches.

Andre Leon Talley

One my favorite things is to go to the provinces of Russia and see the 18th century wood churches with the onion dome architecture. These humble wonders of incredible imagination of architects that were obviously not living in places like Paris or London, but they've created these amazing churches.

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Valentino made my day suit for the wedding of Paloma Picasso in Paris.

Andre Leon Talley

It's always great to have things from France at a wedding. It's symbolic of style, of culture, of taste.

Andre Leon Talley

Like Hillary Clinton before her, Mrs. Obama has always been a working woman. She is a lawyer turned hospital administrator turned political right hand. It is a unique resume.

Andre Leon Talley

When I have interns, I always say, 'Handwritten thank-you notes can make a difference.' People remember that - not an e-mail, a handwritten note in an envelope.

Andre Leon Talley

The zenith of elegance in any woman's wardrobe is the little black dress, the power of which suggests dash and refinement.

Andre Leon Talley

Reality TV, although I'm a part of it, I think reality TV is a terrible thing.

Andre Leon Talley

Look at 'American Idol,' which I don't look at. Those winners haven't become household names except for Jennifer Hudson, and she was a reject. You can't aim to be a household name. You just have to be successful.

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First Ladies have always been held like specimens under a media microscope.

Andre Leon Talley

Why spend money on movies when you can spend it on gas? Or dry cleaning? Or groceries?

Andre Leon Talley

I went to Brown to be a French professor, and I didn't know what I was doing except that I loved French. When I got to Paris and I could speak French, I know how much it helped me to establish relationships with Karl Lagerfeld, with the late Yves St. Laurent. French, it just helps you if you're in fashion. The French people started style.

Andre Leon Talley

I know what it is like to be brought up with unconditional love. In my life that came from my grandmother.

Andre Leon Talley

Uggs can be as chic as heels for women.

Andre Leon Talley