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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Whatever concerns health is of real public interest.
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I like to pace onstage.
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I was very lucky: I started acting in this highly subsidized German theater world, so there was not so much job insecurity. We had great working conditions, long rehearsal times, well paid.
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I went to live in Barcelona in 1975, when I was twenty. Even before I went there, I knew more about the Spanish Civil War than I did about the Irish Civil War. I liked Barcelona, and then I grew to like a place in the Catalan Pyrenees called the Pillars, especially an area between the village of Flavors and the high mountains around it.
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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.
