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"Either way, you were connected. By your desires. By your defiance. By the simple, complicated fact of who you were."

"Dreaming and loving and screwing. None of these are identities. Maybe when other people look at us, but not to ourselves. We are so much more complicated than that."

"She looks like a very young old person, or a very old young person; but then, she's looked that way ever since she was two."

"But then it came to me that who I really am is a person who doesn't need to know who he really is, in the usual sense. What does it mean, anyway - family background and so forth? People use it mostly as an excuse for their own snobbery, or else their failings. I'm free of the temptation, that's all. I'm free of the strings. Nothing ties me down."

"If you're born a man, be a man. If a woman, be proud of being one. For, you're not the body, mind, this or that. "Ye are gods!" - human."
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"That's one thing about fashion that you really shouldn't be-you can't be melancholy in fashion because people don't respond to it."

"People say it's really the press who create those soundbites about fashion. That's what sells magazines and clothes."

"Even though I grew up as a Sephardic Jew in Brooklyn where we ate Syrian food and went to temple, it was still America."

"You listen to Handel operas, right? And there are a thousand of them, right? And they all sound alike. If I look back on my work, maybe it's the same thing."

"You don't necessarily live for the moment; you live for hope-what you're going to get, what you're going to say, what you're going to think."

"All I want are high heels, high heels. If I was a girl, I'd wear a lot of high heels. High, stiletto heels."

"The last thing I want to become is one of those talking heads where everything is satiny smooth and you know what the next question is going to be."

"The reason people like to watch ball games is because they don't really know exactly what's going to happen from moment to moment. That's why you watch the entire thing."
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