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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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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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 have a record I love, 'Limbo,' which is very catchy.
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Whether it goes to series or stands by itself, I'm proud of what we did with it, not only from the standpoint of what it could have been, but for itself.
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I'll never forget watching my dad perform in a Shakespeare in the Park production of 'Richard III' in New York.
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London, from the architecture to the culture to the fashion to the accents, feels like it's a special place.
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When I first read Anne Frank's 'Diary of a Young Girl,' I saw for the first time that a girl could be a writer and that it had something to do with survival and with ethics and fighting against evil. I admired her, though her diary remained terrifying and mysterious to me. She was a character in a real fairy tale - fairy tales are brutal.
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quoted in American Character: A History of the Epic Struggle Between Individual Liberty and the Common Good (2015)
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Character is the one thing we make in this world and take with us into the next.
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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.
