"I love classic beauty. It’s an idea of beauty with no standard."
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"I don't like sleeping with people I really love. I don't want to sleep with them because sex cannot last, but affection can last forever."
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"The smell of a freshly printed book is the best smell in the world."
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"Like poetry, fashion does not state anything. It merely suggests."
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"Seduction is, first and foremost, an art form. And seduction should not always be treated as a wild celebration. In fact, it's more of an evocation of what you do. It's more an evocation of seduction."
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"I don't want to do anything over again, ever again. I want only to do what I haven't done. There's no "again." There's only the future. I hate the past - especially my own past."
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"If you stick to something doggedly, you are off to a bad start."
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"It’s great that in life you do something that you want to do because you like doing it and you’re not bored. I’m not bored at all. I’m even interested in lots of things, more so today than before."
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"I hate amateurs. I hate unprofessional people. There are enough people who can do jobs decently that there's no reason that people who cannot do them decently [should] pretend to be great at it."
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"Virgos are very faithful. I'm a faithful friend. I'm a faithful lover."
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"I like newspapers. Maybe the iPad is very modern and everything, and I'm not against it, but I like the physical contact. And the physical contact of metal and glass is not as sensuous as paper."
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"I forget nothing and then, one day, there will be revenge. Innocence isn't exactly everywhere. But I will say innocence also takes you far in photography."
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"It's not the days that are old, it's you that's old."
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"Keep the best, forget the rest."
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"I like to reinvent myself — it’s part of my job."
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"When I was 14, I wanted to smoke because my mother smoked like mad. I wanted to smoke to look grown-up. But my mother said: 'You shouldn't smoke. Your hands are not that beautiful and that shows when you smoke."
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"I am physically allergic to flip-flops"
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"I don't want to look sloppy, because then I feel sloppy"
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"Life should be larger than life. Size is important to escape normalization."
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"I hated the company of other children. I wanted to be a grownup person, to be taken seriously. I hated the idea of childhood; I thought it was a moment of endless stupidity."
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