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Everything about my journey to get Spanx off the ground entailed me having to be a salesperson - from going to the hosiery mills to get a prototype made to calling Saks Fifth Avenue and Neiman Marcus. I had to position myself to get five minutes in the door with buyers. ↗

— Sara Blakely

#avenue #buyers #calling #door #entailed

I walk slowly into myself, through a forest of empty suits of armor. ↗

— Tomas Transtromer

#empty #forest #i #into #myself

I cut the feet out of my control top pantyhose to wear under these white pants and that was the ah-ha moment that started Spanx. My own butt was my own inspiration! ↗

— Sara Blakely

#cut #feet #i #inspiration #moment

I shopped for body shapers for the first time in my life and I was horrified. They were thick - it was like wearing workout clothes and they all had a leg band on one side that showed through the pants. ↗

— Sara Blakely

#body #clothes #first #first time #had

For a while I couldn't leave the house by myself. Even if I was just grocery shopping alone, I'd get self-conscious. ↗

— Shannen Doherty

#even #get #grocery #grocery shopping #house

I was very pleased to find that once I had records out music videos were starting to happen, so I directed some of my own music videos and got to experiment in other areas of expression. ↗

— Thomas Dolby

#directed #experiment #expression #find #got

My mum was very conscious about fashion and my dad was born into the tailoring tradition, so fashion has always been my life, although now, really, I wear the same thing - just in different weights - light and heavy cashmere in winter and cotton in summer. ↗

— Domenico Dolce

#although #always #been #born #conscious

I could read at a very early age and I loved stories, losing myself in stories, novels. ↗

— Heather Donahue

#could #early #early age #i #losing

I supported my friend Congressman Shuler over former Speaker Nancy Pelosi during our party's leadership elections in November citing a need for new leadership. ↗

— Joe Donnelly

#congressman #during #elections #former #friend

When I was doing half-hour shows, I loved it and was preparing myself for the hour shows. Then when I did the hour shows, I was preparing myself for the specials and features. ↗

— Richard Donner

#doing #features #half-hour #hour #i