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Who could help but love Audrey Hepburn? Graceful and beautiful inside and out, Audrey Hepburn is still a forceful style icon.

Audrey Hepburn was born in Belgium to a British father and a Dutch Baroness mother on May 4, 1929. She was schooled partly in England, partly in the Netherlands, where she studied ballet in addition to regular schooling. During the Nazi occupation, she carried messages for the underground resistance movement in her ballet slippers. After the war ended, Audrey moved to study ballet first in Amsterdam, then in London with Nijinsky's teacher.

Audrey Hepburn, is also know for a string of films followed until in 1961, Audrey starred in the movie version of Truman Capote's Breakfast at Tiffany's. As Holly Golightly, the girl who is always searching for something, never settling down, and finding paradise at Tiffany's jewelry store, Audrey wore some of the most influential clothes in film history.

"See what I mean, how nothing bad could happen to you in a place like this?" —Breakfast at Tiffany's

These are said to have been Audrey's own beauty tips:

1) For attractive lips, speak words of kindness.

2) For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people.

3) For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry.

4) For beautiful hair, let a child run his or her fingers through it once a day.

5) For poise, walk with the knowledge that you never walk alone.

6) People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed and redeemed; never throw out anyone.

7) Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of each of your arms. As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.

8) The beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the figure that she carries, or the way she combs her hair. The beauty of a woman must be seen from in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides.

9) The beauty of a woman is not in a facial mode, but the true beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul. It is the caring that she lovingly gives, the passion that she shows.

10) The beauty of a woman grows with the passing years.

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