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'It can't be done' is not a phrase I recognize.
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Phrase
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It is not me who is to be noticed. It is my work.
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Work Me Who
Noticed
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I really should have been a pharaoh - do you know that?
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Do You Know
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I always like to read something romantic about the place I'm visiting.
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Visiting
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Good people can get you out of a thousand problems with charm and kindness.
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Charm
Good People
Thousand
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I'm never short of inspiration. There are always new ideas - and new adventures.
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New Ideas
Adventures
Always New Never
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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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Why Not
Properly
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I buy the best fabrics from small mills in Italy. That is the basis for my clothes.
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Clothes
Mills
Basis
Buy
Fabrics
Italy
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Comfort? If a choice has to be made between style and comfort, style wins every time.
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Comfort
Wins
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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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Buzz
Hyper
Staff
Motivating
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I think if you have an eye and the ability and the confidence as a designer, you can turn your hand to anything.
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Designer
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Never let anyone go home feeling bad at night. You can bark away during the day, but you must always put that right.
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Bark
Home Night Day
Go Home
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Being a rather second-rate actress, I finally thought, 'I'd rather be a designer.' I knew I could make things look good.
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Designer
Second Rate
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Design, refine and repeat, and keep learning all the way along. It sounds bland and pedestrian, but in fact, it's the reverse.
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Design
Bland
Reverse
Fact
In Fact
Pedestrian
Refine
Repeat
Sounds
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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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Good Things
Minute
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I get up in the morning, look around, arrange and rearrange things, and imagine how I might like them to look. Why doesn't everybody?
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Arrange
Rearrange
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You've got to be the best at what you can do - be the best at it! And the best has to be the best; you can't just fiddle around and hope.
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Fiddle
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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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Champagne
Sitting
Bolt
Tastes
Sofa
Sunk
Upright
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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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Albert
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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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Lifestyle
Life Work Way
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India. From Goa to Kerala and Mumbai, it gets me every time. It's the food, the people, and the colours. The magical atmosphere and the accepting nature of the locals.
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Atmosphere
Mumbai
Colours
Every Time
Magical
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I don't let many people in. I don't discuss everything. If I don't want to discuss it, I'm not discussing it. I think that annoys the hell out of an awful lot of people.
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Annoys
Awful Lot
Discuss
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From the age of five, I was organizing everybody's everything. If I didn't like the way it looked, I'd rearrange it. From a very early age, I saw life from my point of view.
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Point Of View
Early Age
Organizing
Rearrange
Very Early Age
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Unless a design is infused with a personality - and by that, I mean mine or someone else who really understands what design is all about - it will never, ever have any mystery.
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Understands
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I like people. Listen, if you're a hotelier, if you're a creative person, and you're working with the things that I do, then you have to like people; otherwise, you simply can't get anywhere.
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Creative Person
People Person Things
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A house must be bedded in the landscape. They both have to work together. In and out, every view from a window has to be sensational. Every view into the house must be the same to ensure continuity.
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Continuity
Landscape
Sensational
Window
Ensure
Work Together
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The architect who first inspired me to follow this profession was Sir John Soane and his Regency home; well, his three homes, now a museum. The place is like an encyclopedia of paintings, antiquities, furniture, sculptures, and drawings.
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Architect
Encyclopedia
Furniture
Profession
Drawings
Home Me Place
Homes
Museum
Sculptures
Sir
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I'm not an interior decorator; I'm a designer, and that includes the architecture. The package must be strong and controlled, the rooms aligned, and the windows positioned to make sense with the furniture. Fluff it up, and you've got big trouble.
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Architecture
Designer
Furniture
Rooms
Aligned
Be Strong
Decorator
Interior
Package
Windows
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Everything I've ever done has been because of travel. Right from leaving Australia to where I am today - it's all been about exchanging different points of view. The most important lesson I've learnt is to look and listen to what's happening around you.
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Travel
Exchanging
Today Done I Am
Happening
Important Lesson
Learnt
Lesson
The Most Important
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England used to be known for making beautiful things. Then we became the rag trade, known for our street fashions, which were picked up around the world. I want us to be recognized for quality. We have the hands to make the clothes. What we need is the motivation.
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Beautiful Things
Fashions
Picked
Rag
Recognized
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I love to get on the road, but I also think arriving is such a thrill. Turning up at the train station in Mumbai, for example, to see people hanging off all the wonderful old carriages. It's extraordinary - everyone sitting with their chickens on their laps, moving forward but not going anywhere fast.
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Arriving
Chickens
Extraordinary
Moving Forward
Thrill
Turning
For Example
Laps
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It was the corner sweet-shop in Australia that first piqued my interest in interior design. I went into this space with a mixture of apprehension and excitement as a child. It was filled, floor to ceiling, with the most incredible rounded glass bowls filled to the brim with bonbons, buttons, and sweets.
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Apprehension
Australia
Bowls
Buttons
Excitement
Filled
Brim
Ceiling
Corner
Glass
Interior
Mixture
Rounded
Sweets
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I feel that, historically, the Art Deco period has the most resonance for me. As a person, it has to be the plucky Clara Bow, the heroine of American silent movies of the 1920s. She embodied feminine dressing mixed with men's style. All this then evolved into the exquisite style and simplicity of Coco Chanel.
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Movies
Exquisite
Feminine
Resonance
Silent
Silent Movies
American
Bow
Chanel
Period
Dressing
Embodied
Evolved
Heroine
Historically
Mixed
She
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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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Clients
Interiors
Sensitive
Surroundings
Designing
Element
Followed
Observe
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The building I most admire is the Doges Palace in Venice, both by day and by night. Looking at it from the lagoon, it resembles a floating kilim carpet. I love all the bridges which connect houses, people, gardens and palaces. I also love moats to isolate yourself. A ha-ha for secrecy, as in every English country garden.
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Admire
Bridges
Carpet
Floating
Garden
Night
Secrecy
Venice
Love Yourself Day
Connect
Houses
Isolate
Palace
Resembles
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When building in a place that already has a dominant style, it's important to behave yourself. Look around; refer to what you see. In the mountains above Salzburg, I saw charming chalets and wildflower meadows. The chalets are cozy - I don't do cozy. The meadows are in a soft disarray - I don't do soft, and I don't do disarray. I do order.
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Behave
Charming
Cozy
Dominant
Meadows
Mountains
Yourself Look Important
Refer
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