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I am one of those people who isn’t great at anything, but I’m pretty good at most things.

Tom Ford

You have to love what you do to the point that you can’t imagine doing anything else with your life.
TOM FORD

Dedication Imagination Job Life Love Passion Yourself
I understand that I have a certain look that can be used to my advantage. I know the power of that when I walk into a room and talk to people, and I can use it as an advertising tool. Now I am actually selling me, my face, my thoughts. So I am my guy.
TOM FORD

Advertisement Face Myself Power Thinking Understand Walk
People always ask me how I start a collection, and I tell them that I just look around. What am I tired of? What am I in the mood for? Real fashion change comes from real changes in real life. Everything else is just decoration.
TOM FORD

Change Collection Decoration Fashion Myself People Reality Start
Both film and fashion are businesses where the audience doesn’t feel or see the work that goes on behind the scenes.
TOM FORD

Audience Business Fashion Movie See Work
On the one hand, I want to go off and live in the desert with my dog and sculpt things out of adobe.
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Desert Dog Hands Live Myself
I find I can get so much done between midnight and 4 a.m. Everything is quiet, no one is disturbing me, and if I go to bed then, I just lie awake thinking of ideas. They are very creative hours for me. One night a week I crash out, though.
TOM FORD

Bed Creativity Disturb Ideas Myself Night Quiet
I’m living the exact life I planned on living when I was five.
TOM FORD

Dreams Life Live Myself Planning
A man should never wear shorts in the city. Flip-flops and shorts in the city are never appropriate. Shorts should only be worn on the tennis court or on the beach.
TOM FORD

Advice Clothes Fashion Man
Style is very different from fashion. Once you find something that works, keep it.
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Different Fashion Style Work Yourself
You should put on the best version of yourself when you go out in the world because that is a show of respect to the other people around you.
TOM FORD

Best People Respect Version World Yourself
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.
TOM FORD

Connection Enjoyment Important Life Myself People
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?
TOM FORD

Life Love Myself Pieces Science Try Yourself
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.
TOM FORD

Children Escape Fashion Happiness Influence Life Live Myself
The seventies is what I love. Soft, touchable beauty is what I love.
TOM FORD

Beautiful Love Myself Softness Touch
The Gucci woman – you know what she’s after. The Saint Laurent woman – she’s going to torture you a little bit. You might have sex, but she will drip a little hot wax on you first.
TOM FORD

Need Pain Sex Woman Yourself
You can’t fake anything. If you’re honest and true and you love something, and you put that energy into it, people can usually feel it on the other side.
TOM FORD

Energy Fake Feeling Honesty Love True Yourself

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