Carmen Dell'Orefice Quotes

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• If you had the ceiling falling down in your living room, would you not go and have a repair?
• When asked her view of cosmetic surgery, Carmen Dell'Orefice replies, '”That's a very polite way of asking me, I'm sure, ‘Have you had a facelift?'…
• 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.…
• 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…
• There's always a boyfriend. Whatever else I have to give up on, I won't give up on love.
• My mother was harsh and constantly told me I had jug ears and heaven knows what else. But she was devoted and a hard worker.
• 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…
• We are oceans apart. My mother had a very difficult life.
• We were so poor that my mother would often leave me in a foster home until she could raise enough money to rent rooms for…
• We're all works of art in progress.
• You know, Italian-Hungarian - no matter how linear and cool I look on the outside, I have all that energy trying to find its way…
• 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…
• 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,…
• Even with a computer, I can't get rid of all the papers in my life.
• I don't live for stuff and things, and if I had to live in a cardboard box, I would put curtains on it.
• If your ceiling is falling down, don't you call someone in? I apply the same principle to myself.
• 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,…
• 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.
• I hate a man who looks dirty.
• I think America may be growing up and accepting the fact that the bulk of life exists beyond 50. Because demographically... the vast population is…

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