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• I hope I’m nice -it’s a silly word, but I’d like people to think that about me.

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• 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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• When I was a kid, I thought I was going to be an actor.

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• 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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• My grandmother was probably the first person who I thought was beautiful. She was incredibly stylish, she had big hair, big cars. I was probably 3 years old, but she was like a cartoon character. She’d swoop into our lives with presents and boxes, and she always smelled great and looked great.

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• I’m actually very introverted. I’m very shy. I’m very emotional.

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• I think the 1970s will always be the decade for me. Obviously, I grew up in that era, but the beauty standard was touchable, kissable.

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• I just want to make beautiful, glamorous clothes.

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• I enjoy the speed of fashion. I love doing different things and I think I still have something valid to say in fashion.

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• I don’t want to find myself designing for the press.

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• I don’t do shows. I don’t have reviews. I’m not putting the clothes on every celebrity so that by the time they reach the store the customers are sick of seeing them.

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• But as an adult working in the fashion industry, I struggle with materialism. And I’m one of the least materialistic people that exist, because material possessions don’t mean much to me. They’re beautiful, I enjoy them, they can enhance your life to a certain degree, but they’re ultimately not important.

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• When the youth of America gets together, amazing things happen.

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• We have the Terminator as governor, and we had an actor as president, so why shouldn’t we have a fashion designer as a senator?

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• There aren’t many strong or charismatic candidates today, because many people can’t withstand the scrutiny.

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• The U.S. used to be perceived as the moral leader of the world, and we have absolutely lost that.

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• Students in the ’60s were responsible for great changes, politically and socially.

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• September 11th was a moment when America had the sympathy of the world.

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• Once upon a time we did not focus on a president’s private life.

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• Most everyone now personally knows someone who is openly homos*xual.

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Thomas Carlyle Ford (27)

Birth:	27th August, 1961
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Director, Fashion Designer

About

Tom Ford was born August 27, 1961, in Austin, Texas, to realtors Tom Ford and Shirley Burton. He spent his early life in the suburbs of Houston, Texas, and in San Marcos, outside Austin; his family moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico, when he was 11. In Santa Fe, he entered St. Michael's High School and later moved to Santa Fe Preparatory School, from which he graduated in 1979.

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