Marie Helvin Quotes
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I go to the gym four times a week for 45 minutes to an hour without fail; I like using weights for muscle tone and the bike and rower for my heart rate. I do quite a lot of floor exercises.
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I never get asked out by men my own age, as they all want to go out with 20-year-olds, and the men that do ask me out are too young.
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If I'm on holiday, I travel light, but if it is a work trip, I take everything but the kitchen sink.
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I was brought up by parents who embraced the 1960s and taught me that being faithful isn't the be-all and end-all.
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I like naughty boys. I was married to David Bailey, who was one of the naughtiest. I like real men, and I like masculinity.
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I definitely think men prefer women more undone and natural than butch and masculine. They prefer a fresher, sexier, more feminine look.
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There are loads of women that don't want children. What does it matter? I'm still a woman.
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To be honest, the reason I have my cats is to force myself to think about something other than myself.
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As the years go by, you get to know yourself better and learn what works for you.
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I don't do a lot of looking back; I tend to look ahead.
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My life has been charmed in the sense that I've met some extraordinary people. But at the end of the day, when you go home and you go to bed, and if you're on your own, you never think of yourself in that way. I'm sure not even people like Angelina Jolie think like that.
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When you're a model, you learn how to make the most of your assets - in my case, the smallish behind that is the legacy of my half-Japanese heritage.
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I lost all my investments after everything crashed in 2001. Prior to that, I'd been living off the interest on my investments, which was very healthy because it allowed frequent travel, and I had a lovely apartment.
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I think I'm living in the wrong century. I would have made a great courtesan. Not a mistress - I could never be kept - but a courtesan with my own rules.
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But I'd made up my mind early on in life that I never wanted to be a mother.
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As a girl, I lived in jeans, and my love-affair with them continues. Since I turned 50, jeans have become something of a uniform, whether it's a slouchy boyfriend fit for daytime or a leaner, fitted jean in a darker denim for evening.
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If you believe, as I do believe, in reincarnation, they say that every time you come back, it's because you have to finish something. I've a funny feeling that my thing in this life is to have one relationship after another.
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I always wear the same thing: a tight white shirt - I have about 50 - and tight black trousers.
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There are lots of things I won't eat but would like to, such as croissants or ice cream - if I started, I'd scoff the whole tub.
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We are constantly driven to believe that women should look a set age or be a certain body size, which is fuelling an obsession with ever more dramatic and invasive steps.
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If I'm not in work, I don't wear any make-up.
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I lead a very disciplined life.
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The fact is, after a certain age, high heels can feel as painful as someone sticking hot pins into the soles of your feet.
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Monogamy is not something that's important to me. I don't think it defines love.