Daphne Guinness Quotes
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Life is full of banana skins. You slip, you carry on.
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Love is agony, isn't it? I've been involved with someone for some time now, but it's all so complicated. It's never straightforward is it? You meet someone, you fall in love, it's the most wonderful thing ever but... There's always something that's not quite right about love, isn't there?
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I play piano and I sing. But I do that for fun. I mean, I do everything for fun.
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My style is difficult to contain in a sentence; it's ever evolving. Generally I'm drawn to clean cuts and avoid patterns. I tend to choose structure and block colors, but these are all just loose guidelines.
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My life has always somehow been played out in a minor key, unresolved. Art somehow resolves things for me.
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I think the world's just gone completely mad, with everyone wearing the same things, even celebrities.
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Switch off reality TV! I've only ever been able watch about 30 seconds of it.
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Holding a note is a very difficult thing - you have to use your whole body to achieve a perfect pitch.
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If you go into a relationship when you're 16, you've got no baggage.
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I have a four-and-a-half-, nearly five-octave range. I probably should have had extra lessons as a child, as I am certain my family heard my potential, but I didn't. I was in the choir as a schoolgirl, but really, it is all self-taught.
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A marriage is a solemn affair. The tempest of emotions and the myriad of arrangements are giddying, and when one is faced with these, clothing seems to be the last of one's priorities.
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I don't dress for effect, and I think that it never works out when someone does.
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Fragrance takes you on a journey of time. You can walk down the street and pass someone and get taken back 20 years. It's very Proustian that way.
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You can tell the state of civilization by the way people dress. If the people who fought two World Wars came back to 2010 and saw all of us running around in tracksuits, what would they think? It is just about being sloppy.
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Sunglasses are great, but I always feel a bit pretentious wearing sunglasses. I mean, I do love to wear them.
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It's quite nice to have a place to leave things. You can be a permanent gypsy, but it's nice to go home.
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I've been really upset sometimes when I've been misquoted. And it's the one thing they use in big print. Or it's taken out of context. Thoughts are fluid and words are sticky. That's the thing.
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I practice stoic philosophy. As a human being, you may have emotions, but these don't need to affect your soul. The two are not one.
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We need a government, not politics. Because there's too much politics. Of course there should be debate. But there seems to be so much pettiness and not enough good faith. It is civilized to agree to disagree, and this idea is slowly disintegrating. The great statesmen of the past knew this, and I think it helps drive civilization.
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I hate the idea of making any of my children into a mini-me. That would be terrible.
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Oh, I love tea. I have to take tea bags wherever I go.
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I don't tell anybody else what to wear. I would never dream of it.
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From 1989 to 2000, I was focusing in on my children. I hadn't realized the world had changed a lot. AIDS had happened, for starters, and so many people in the arts died or were affected.
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I think life is about having the mixture of the curiosity of an older person and the imagination of a child.