Anouska Hempel Quotes
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Work's a way of life. It's the way you live; it's what you do, and it's how it is. It's not work. It's a lifestyle. It's life. It's what one does. You can't not work.
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Comfort? If a choice has to be made between style and comfort, style wins every time.
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Sure, I'm hyperactive. I make my staff a bit hyper, too, but motivating someone else is what gives me a buzz.
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The champagne tastes the same if you're sitting bolt upright or sunk back into a sofa, so you might as well be upright, because you look better.
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I'd always been acutely sensitive to my surroundings - and aware that I could make them rather than just observe them. So I began by designing interiors for myself, for friends, for clients - I just felt that I'd discovered my element, and those who really looked at what I was doing liked it - and the rest followed.
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I always like to read something romantic about the place I'm visiting.
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I really should have been a pharaoh - do you know that?
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My father wanted a boy. I was supposed to be called Albert. That was probably the beginning of why things got so complicated, because I wasn't a boy.
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It is not me who is to be noticed. It is my work.
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Acting was fun for a while. I loved every minute of the really good things I did but probably wasn't as good as I should have been.
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If I set off to do something, why not do it properly? Otherwise, what's the point?
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'It can't be done' is not a phrase I recognize.