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Anouska Hempel Quotes

New Zealander - Actress | December 13, 1941 -

I buy the best fabrics from small mills in Italy. That is the basis for my clothes.

Best Small Clothes Buy Italy Mills

It is not me who is to be noticed. It is my work.

Work Me Who Noticed

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.

Life Age View Point Of View Early

Being a rather second-rate actress, I finally thought, 'I'd rather be a designer.' I knew I could make things look good.

Good Thought Look Things Being Knew

If I set off to do something, why not do it properly? Otherwise, what's the point?

Why Point Why Not Something Off Set

Comfort? If a choice has to be made between style and comfort, style wins every time.

Time Style Choice Comfort Made Wins

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.

Better You Look Back Sitting Same

I think if you have an eye and the ability and the confidence as a designer, you can turn your hand to anything.

Confidence Eye Think You Hand Turn

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.

Space Child Design Australia Glass

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.

Home Me Furniture Museum Place Now

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.

Style Art Men Simplicity Me Feel

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.

Work Together Window View Landscape

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