I’m not the type of person who dwells too much on bad things.
BETSEY JOHNSONWhen you’re designing clothing, you really only have one point of focus, and that’s the body. But home is fabrics and furniture and floors and natural light. If fashion is a planet, home is more like a universe.
More Betsey Johnson Quotes
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[In the 1960s]…you could take LSD but you couldn’t wear a pantsuit.
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There is an excitement about having nightmares.
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I don’t like to have time on my wall; it’s too-in-your-face.
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I never keep anything beautiful in the closet.
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Just to see what a pink dress can mean to a woman, any woman, but a disabled woman, that’s extra special and thrilling because they shouldn’t be separated and their disabilities don’t have to separate them in anyway.
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You have to hold onto your fantasy.
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Love is a disease of the heartin the end, there is no treatment curable and it might just kill you.
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Girls do not dress for boys. They dress for themselves, of course, each other. If girls dressed for boys, they’d just walk around naked at all times.
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If a girl comes to me first for a prom or a bar mitzvah and she likes the way she looks and her boyfriend likes the way she looks, she’ll come back.
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Hard times always lead to something great.
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I was always dancing and acrobatics was my specialty.
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A good use for me is to let me go away with my sewing machine and come back with some really new stuff.
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I never wanted to join fashion industry or being another Donna or another Dianne. I made clothes that I wanted to wear. I would cut, I would sew and I would wear, and it made me to feel better.
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At any appearance, I make sure that before the person takes a pic and runs away, that I make contact. All I can do is give that little bit of me, the kickback is miraculous.
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Real success is being totally indulgent about your own trip. You put your blinders on about the garbage and go full speed ahead.
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