You have to love what you do to the point that you can’t imagine doing anything else with your life.
TOM FORDI don’t believe in playing around much with suit cuts. I like a fairly classic shape that gives a man strong shoulders, a fitted waist, and long legs. Classic simplicity always works.
More Tom Ford Quotes
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Time and silence are the most luxurious things today.
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If my parents had discouraged me, I would have turned out very differently. They raised me in an open-minded, liberal environment.
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Style is very different from fashion. Once you find something that works, keep it.
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It’s hard not to be sexy in a pair of high heels.
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A film should be somewhat personal. I think that whatever you create you have to be true to yourself and create something that feels right to you.
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What is important is that we stop and realize, “Okay. This is fine. I can enjoy that. But what is really important, what I’m really going to take away with me from this life, is my connection with other people.
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Both film and fashion are businesses where the audience doesn’t feel or see the work that goes on behind the scenes.
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The world might be a very scary place if it were only run by Virgos.
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Want girls to let you put your fingers in certain places? Get a manicure.
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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.
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If I were straight and I were trying to seduce a woman, I could do it just by standing up at the table when she came back from the bathroom. It works. Every time I do that, all the straight men are sitting at the table and their wives are kicking them. “Look at that!” “You never do that for me!”
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In another life I would love to be a cosmetic surgeon because it’s architectural. You know, you are trying to figure out where the seams go. Can I do it in one piece like Halston? Can you formaldehyde DNA?
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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.
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I am not someone who likes cocktail parties or large dinner parties, but I have to attend them often. I much prefer very small dinners with close friends.
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I am a perfectionist. This job is a total ego thing in a way. To be a designer and say, ‘This is the way they should dress; this is the way their homes should look; this is the way the world should be.’ But then, that’s the goal: world domination through style.
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