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Carmen Dell'Orefice

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I'm a working woman of 80 trying to work out what the image I can project is. How I can do it with, you know, dignity. - Carmen Dell'Orefice
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There's no way I would have got to see so much of the world, with my humble background, without modelling. We were penniless and hungry for most of my youth. I washed the sheets in the bathtub in my bedroom and hung them out of the window on the clothes line, which in winter was difficult as the sheets would freeze and get stuck to the line. - Carmen Dell'Orefice
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Being on the cover of 'Vogue' at 15 meant nothing to me. I never really understood what it was they were looking at, what they saw in me. - Carmen Dell'Orefice
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My dream was to become a ballet dancer, but after a year in bed with rheumatic fever at 13, I had grown too tall, and had no muscle tone left. I tried a ballet class and couldn't even do a plie without falling over. It was my first death. - Carmen Dell'Orefice
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The money I've earned has enabled me to keep my life in my own hands. I had a terrific body, and I got paid for using it. - Carmen Dell'Orefice
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I exercise every day. I don't get up and have a cup of coffee anymore, I get up and move to get blood to my brain. - Carmen Dell'Orefice
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We have to program the mind of the public that age is not ugly. Age is just age. Wake up, American children, and stop listening to other people's voices. Know yourself, be true to yourself and make a contribution. It took me half my life to know myself. I listened to other people's opinions and took them as gospel. - Carmen Dell'Orefice
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My life has been amazing. How many other ladies of 76 can say that the snapshot on their senior citizen's card was taken by Norman Parkinson? - Carmen Dell'Orefice
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There's always a boyfriend. Whatever else I have to give up on, I won't give up on love. - Carmen Dell'Orefice
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As a model, I didn't have an identity; I was a chameleon, a silent actress. I was an amorphous thing. I wasn't full of personality, I was full of solitude and solemnity. I wasn't a cover-girl type. - Carmen Dell'Orefice
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I'm loath to do interviews. What comes out is generally not what I meant or thought I was saying or thought they were asking. - Carmen Dell'Orefice
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We're all works of art in progress. - Carmen Dell'Orefice
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I understood that synergistic dance between photographer and object - 'muse,' if you will, 'model,' whatever you call us. It's that silent language of communication, like being psychic with each other. - Carmen Dell'Orefice
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I didn't marry to have children. I married to have a relationship, and I was blessed with one child. I was an only child, too - my mother was smarter than most women today; she just had me. - Carmen Dell'Orefice
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I don't believe in funerals. I believe in celebrating life, and showing people, while they're alive, how much I care about them. And I don't believe in this business of burial. I'm an organ donor. Whether its my skin or my eyeballs, use whatever bits are intact and put the rest in the garbage. - Carmen Dell'Orefice
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Fashion is more about taste than money - you have to understand your body and tailor clothes to your needs; it's all about the fit. I do the alterations myself - I'm quite a seamstress - it's the influence of my Hungarian mother. - Carmen Dell'Orefice
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