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People shouldn't look at me and think life is one big piece of glamour. That's the marketing, the spin. Life is challenging. But I have courage, strength, and enough good health to see the positive.

~Carmen Dell'Orefice

Topics: Big Challenging Courage Enough Glamour Good Good Health Health Life Look Marketing Me People Piece Positive See Spin Strength Think

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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

Topics: About Alive Believe Bits Burial Business Care Celebrating Donor Funerals Garbage How How Much Intact Life Much Organ People Put Rest Showing Skin Them Use Whatever Whether While I Believe I Believe In I Care

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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

Topics: Anymore Blood Brain Coffee Cup Day Every Every Day Exercise Get Move Up

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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

Topics: Background Bathtub Bedroom Clothes Difficult Freeze Get Got Humble Hung Hungry Line Modelling Most Much Out See Sheets Stuck Them Washed Way Were Which Window Winter Without World Would Youth

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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

Topics: Age American Be True Children Contribution Gospel Half Just Know Know Yourself Life Listened Listening Make Me Mind My Life Myself Opinions Other People Program Public Stop Them Took True Ugly Up Voices Wake Wake Up Yourself

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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

Topics: Being Cover Looking Me Meant Never Nothing Really Saw Understood Vogue Were

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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

Topics: After Ballet Ballet Dancer Become Bed Class Dancer Death Dream Even Falling Fever First Grown Had Left Muscle Over Over It Tall Tone Too Tried Without Year I Tried

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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

Topics: Blessed Child Children Had Just Married Marry Me Most Mother Only Only Child Relationship She Smarter Than Today Too Women

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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

Topics: Actress Chameleon Full Identity Model Personality Silent Solemnity Solitude Thing Type

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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

Topics: Dignity How Image Know Out Project Trying Woman Work Work Out Working You I Can

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Model

Born: June 3rd, 1931

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