Jasmine Guinness Quotes
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I knew nothing about my mum's family. Her parents were dead by the time she was 14. She was brought up by two aunts, and she only ever met one uncle.
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As a teenager, I was teased at school about my height and long legs, but now they are my best assets. Kids can be mean. When I was at school, I considered myself ugly, but that was when I was silly enough to believe that what other people thought mattered. Now I think I am pretty. I'm not beautiful. There is a difference.
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It's really hard work being a model.
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Drugs seem to turn people into paranoid bores. Why would anyone want to go there?
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Since having kids, I am more careful about saving rather than splurging. I used to spend all my money on trainers and high heels that I couldn't walk in.
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My face hasn't matured as I've grown up, and neither has my sense of humour. In the mirror, I see an older version of myself as a child, although I do have more wrinkles and freckles.
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It has long been a childhood dream of mine to have a farm.
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I used to be frightened of the countryside after dark. Now I enjoy it. There is something wonderful about those strange country and wildlife noises.
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In my twenties, I was obsessed with what other people thought of me. In my thirties, it's about my children, my husband, my work. In my forties, it's going to be about me, and I shan't care what anyone else thinks. I can't wait!
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I was very lucky growing up, and I got all my dad's and aunts' toys from the 1950s and 1960s and loved those old pedal cars.
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I grew up in Ireland, so I do not have a lot of respect for most politicians.
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I've worked since I was 18. I have no trust fund and don't expect anything.
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While farmers' markets are booming in cities, actual rural market towns are in decline.
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As a model, I travel non-stop.
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I spent a day in a neck brace on a hospital trolley after falling from a horse and cart in Ireland. All the nurses thought I was a traveler, which made me laugh. Who else comes into a hospital saying they've fallen off a horse and cart?
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I think children of divorced parents do grow up quicker. You just do.
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I've known my best friend since I was a baby, and I don't know what I would do without her. She is always straight with me and can make me laugh hysterically. Everyone should have someone like that in their life.
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The government has got to do something to help independent businesses.
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People talk about me as if I am the sole inheritor of the Guinness family fortune and worth masses, but I have hundreds of cousins.
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I hate my hair! When clean, it is fuzzy, and when not clean, it is lank.
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It was tough going to boarding school. It was very hard work.
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Because I was very big and she was very small, my mother had a horrible birth when I was born. So she always said: 'I'm never having any more kids!'
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We have too many poisons in our diets now, like sugar and caffeine.
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I want to do something to help people.