Ann Demeulemeester Quotes
I feel more European than Belgian. However I do think that my Flemish roots have an impact on my character and culture.
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I joined the Army at 19 as a soldier and spent about four and a half years with them. Then I broke my back in a freefall parachuting accident and spent a year in rehabilitation back in the U.K.
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Divorce isn't the child's fault. Don't say anything unkind about your ex to the child, because you're really just hurting the child.
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In the music business, I found it was much more about interviews, photo shoots and appearances rather than actual performing, which I do best.
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My mother did all she could to control me, but at age 14 she sent me to a military school.
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Not to speak disparagingly of Justin Bieber or Rihanna, but they're not so hands-on with their image or their sound. They don't write the music. They have people doing things for them.
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The whole gun debate needs to be infused with a discussion about manhood. It's frustrating to hear debates about gun rights vs. gun control, and yet very few people say what's hidden in plain sight: It's really a contest of meanings about manhood.
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I was never that famous, but I do think going to college and really getting away from the business and taking a true break is incredibly, incredibly important if you start acting at a young age.
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I've always enjoyed making people laugh. But in order for me to be funny, I have to get ticked off about something.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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I'm not afraid of special effects, but I see them very much as a means to an end.
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Yoga may look peaceful and calming, but even Arnold Schwarzenegger would have trouble breathing after twenty 'surya namaskars' in a row.
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America faces a new race that has awakened.
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If you're lucky, I think you know what you want to do with your life. I think that's a greater gift that any of the gifts you might have when you do know, if you know what I mean. It must be awful to not know what to do.
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You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company.
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I get bored easily.
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I trust my hand. If I go into a space with a roll of paper, I can make a work, some kind of work, and feel pretty satisfied.
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My grandpa would come in with water and flick it on our faces at 6 A.M. and be like, 'If you don't get up to feed the horses, you don't get to ride them.' We'd get up.
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Talking about stepping down in five years is frankly not a topic of particular actuality now.
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I had always fancied a go at the comedy and when it started to go reasonably well and the opportunity arose for me to move into it full time, I just couldn't turn it down. I just took the risk, and I just wanted to see if it would work and thankfully it did.
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I think a CEO lives or dies in whether he's been able to hold on to elements of culture that are needed in the company.
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I just like Forrest Gump. Maybe I'm a little smarter than him, maybe I'm not. Probably because of the whole Southern aspect of his character and for some reason I always wind up on the better end of all deals... I've just kind of got the old silly boy luck!
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The Zocalo is a magnificent space, at least four times the size of Trafalagar Square, with the National Palace on one side, the huge cathedral on the other, and in one corner part of the old Aztec City so brutally destroyed by Hernan Cortez and the Conquistadores.
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Take care that none of them escapes.
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I feel more European than Belgian. However I do think that my Flemish roots have an impact on my character and culture.
