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Edie Sedgwick Biography

Edith Minturn Sedgwick (April 20, 1943 – November 16, 1971) was an American actress and fashion model. She is best known for being one of Andy Warhol's superstars. Sedgwick became known as "The Girl of the Year" in 1965 after starring in several of Warhol's short films in the 1960s. She was dubbed an "It Girl", while Vogue magazine also named her a "Youthquaker".

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Fashion as a whole is a farce, completely. The people behind it are perverted, the styles are created by freaked out people, just natural weirdos. I know this because I worked with all those people while I was modeling.

Fashion, Freaked, People, Style, Whole

I'd like to turn the whole world on just for a moment. Just for a moment.

Like, Moment, Moments, Turns, World

While I was girl of the year and superstar and all that crap, everything I did was really. . . motivated by psychological disturbance.

Girl, Motivated, Superstar, Year, Years

In the year 2000 you're going to have a problem. . . Leisure time will be a problem in the year 2000. I just want you to realize, I just want to make sure that you know of it now.

Know, Leisure, Make, Realize, Want, Years

I made a mask out of my face because I didn't realize I was quite beautiful. God blessed me so. I practically destroyed it. I had to wear heavy black eyelashes like bat wings, and dark lines under my eyes, and cut all my hair off, my long dark hair. Cut it off and stripped it silver and blonde. All those little maneuvers I did out of things that were happening in my life that upset me.

Beautiful, Blessed, Cut, Eye, Silver, Upset

I came to New York to see what I could see — that's from a children's book, isn't it? — and to find the living part.

Book, Came, Children, Living, New York, York

I want to reach people and express myself. You have to put up with the risk of being misunderstood if you are going to try to communicate. You have to put up with people projecting their own ideas, attitudes, misunderstanding you. But it’s worth being a public fool if that’s all you can be in order to communicate yourself.

Attitude, Ideas, Order, Reach

I'm afraid of habit patterns It would be too much of a routine if you had to establish definite ways of getting through things. You'd get very bored.

Afraid, Bored, Establish, Patterns, Routine, Would Be

I'm greedy. I'd like to keep most of it for myself and a few others, a few of my friends. Keep that superlative high just on the cusp of each day so that I radiate sunshine.

Cusp, Each Day, Greedy, Radiate, Sunshine, Superlative

I lived a very isolated life. When you start at 20, you have a lot of nonsense to work out of your system.

Isolated, Lived, Nonsense, System, Work, Work Out

Have you ever analyzed things to the degree where you can’t really remember the difference between what’s real and what you’ve created in your head?

Degrees, Differences, Head, Real, Things

I can understand other people's situations in their own terms, but I still can't understand mine.

People, Situation, Situations, Term, Terms, Understand

I think drugs are like strawberries and peaches.

Drug, Drugs, Peaches, Think, Thinking

I have an accident about every two years, and one day it won't be an accident.

Accident, Day, One Day, Two, Years

I had fun, but I didn't really have anyone i particularly loved except for loving friends. But I have a certain amount of faith that it will come.

Certain, Come, Fun, Loving, Loving Friends

It's like my having to walk down thousands and thousands of white marble stairs. . . and nothing but a very very blue sky, very blue. . . and I'd have to walk down them forever. I never thought about going up. . . Don't you think that must mean something?

Blue, Down, Forever, Mean, Thinking, Walk

It's not that I'm rebelling. It's that I'm just trying to find another way.

Another Way, Rebelling, Trying, Way

I’m in love with everyone I’ve ever met in one way or another. I’m just a crazy, unhinged disaster of a human being.

Crazy, Disaster, Met, Unhinged, Way

It's sort of like a mockery, in a way of reality because they think everything is smiles and sweetness and flowers where there is something bitter to taste. And to pretend there isn't is foolish. I mean the ones that wander around and know, at the same time, and yet wear flowers, and they deserve to wear flowers. And they've earned their smile. You can tell by people's eyes.

Eye, Flower, Flowers, Know, Mean, Taste

You care enough, that you want your life to be fulfilled in a living way, not in a painting way, not in a writing way. . . you really do want it to be involving in living, corresponding with other living objects, moving, changing, that kind of thing.

Care, Corresponding, Kind, Life, Moving, Writing