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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

I’m very direct. I don’t have tantrums. I don’t yell or shout. I do expect an awful lot from my staff, but no more than I expect of myself.
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Direction Drama Expectation Myself
I suppose, yes, I’ve been guilty of provocation but it’s also just common sense marketing – put a bottle of scent in a woman’s cleavage, or between her thighs – and men will notice.
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Body Guilty Herself Man Marketing Myself See Woman
The world might be a very scary place if it were only run by Virgos.
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Earth Place Run World
Keep your jacket buttoned. Always. It’s just really flattering—it will take pounds off you.
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Advice Appearance Body Fashion 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.
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Children Escape Fashion Happiness Influence Life Live Myself
I do struggle because I’m attracted to beautiful things, yet at the same time I am actually very aware, in some sense, their lack of value and that the most important things in life are your connections to other people.
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Attraction Beautiful Connection Important Life Myself People Struggle Time Value
If I had been a dog walker, I would have been the most successful dog walker in Paris.
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Dog Myself Success Walk
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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Different Discouragement Liberty Mindset Myself Parents
Style for me is some one who figures out who they are. What works on them. What they feel good in and develops that. Develops their character. And the outer expression of their character is what is style.
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Character Development Expression Identity Myself Style Work
I thought I was fabulous and everyone else was stupid.
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Myself Stupidity Thinking
As a fashion designer, I was always aware that I was not an artist, because I was creating something that was made to be sold, marketed, used, and ultimately discarded.
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Artist Creation Design Fashion Myself
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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Creation Feeling Personal Right Thinking True Yourself
Only hire people you want to have dinner with.
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Company Food People Yourself
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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Choice Food Friendship Myself Party
I probably do have an obsessive personality, but striving for perfection has served me well
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Myself Obsession Perfection Personality
I’m a natural-born boss, I have to say. I just like to be good at things. Even as a child, I was boss of my family.
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Attitude Born Children Goodness Myself Natural

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.

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