Quotes by Nicholas Haslam - Page 1

I'm the male Kate Moss.
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Moss
Male
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I've always chased glamour.
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Glamour
Chased
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New York in the 60s was amazing.
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New York
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I have a natural curiosity for people.
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Curiosity
Natural
People
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Sunday afternoon is for papers and writing.
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Afternoon
Papers
Sunday
Writing
Sunday Afternoon
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I wanted to be grown up the minute I could.
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Grown
Minute
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Interior decoration partly thrives on being social.
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Decoration
Social
Thrive
Interior
Partly
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The English truly understand the dynamic between buildings and land.
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Building
Land
Buildings
Dynamic
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I don't do nostalgia. The phrase 'the good old days' never passes my lips.
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Good Old Days
Lips
Nostalgia
Old Days
Passes
Phrase
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Most English houses, grand or small, nestle in an intimate pastoral setting.
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Intimate
Setting
Grand
Houses
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I think what I have is straightforwardness, unabashedness rather than charm.
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Charm
Than Think Rather
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It's the fashion, I tell you: big, tall women going out with tiny, tiny men.
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Dating
Tiny
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I don't really do a big Saturday supper. I prefer entertaining in the daytime.
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Daytime
Entertaining
Saturday
Supper
Prefer
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It's terribly easy to be well dressed. It's much more difficult to be badly dressed.
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Badly
Dressed
Terribly
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I believe every room speaks, tells you what to do to it. You have to listen to that.
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Speaks
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I'd like not to have these great puffy lobes on my ears - I'd like them to taper in.
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Ears
Puffy
Taper
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Having photographs around the house is fine - if they're royal and on the grand piano.
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House
Piano
Upper Class
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MY DOCTOR phoned and said you don't deserve this news, but your lungs are crystal clear'.
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Doctors
News
Smoking
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I've never paid attention to politics. I only have the vaguest notion of what the IRA is.
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Attention
Ira
Notion
Paid
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I don't feel I have to charm somebody, I feel I want to know them; it's a different thing.
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Charm
Different Thing
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It's rude to not try and look up-to-date. Is rude the right word? Yes! It's rude - rude to other people.
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Rude
Up To Date
Right Word
Yes
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I've always wanted to look different. I always think I've got this terrible figure. I'd like to be 3 inches taller.
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Inches
Taller
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I could care less if it's Mick Jagger or the man on the street. I just like interesting people, and I happen to know a lot of stars.
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Jagger
Interesting People
Mick Jagger
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Im hopeless at telling lies. I can attempt strategic ones in order not to hurt peoples feelings, but then Ill blow it 10 minutes later.
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Blow
Hurt
Lying
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I'm hopeless at telling lies. I can attempt strategic ones in order not to hurt people's feelings, but then I'll blow it 10 minutes later.
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Blow
Hopeless
Strategic
Telling Lies
Attempt
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I have a thirst - it's an awful word, but I'm thirsty for knowledge. I like knowing things, the odder the better, the more obtuse the better.
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Thirst
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People think that buying something for their home which is up-to-date is chic, but often it's a cliche. I call people who simply give clients the current 'thing' stylists not decorators.
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Buying
Chic
Clients
Up To Date
Home People Who
Current
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I had a face-lift, and I would have another if I needed one. It definitely changed my life. I'm not vain. In fact I don't like looking at myself. The face-lift was just about looking rested.
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Vain
Life Myself My Life
Rested
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You can learn the subtle language of interior style, but many people simply buy it. If you put yourself in the hands of someone who knows what they are doing, you can be confident it will look good.
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Subtle
Good Yourself Look
Confident
Good Look Yourself
Interior
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I rent a Jacobean-fronted hunting lodge in Hampshire from the National Trust and like to go there as much as possible. I've grown to love it so much, especially when writing my memoirs there at weekends.
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Hampshire
Hunting
Grown
Lodge
Memoirs
Rent
Weekends
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I tend to look out for things with a resonance to my youth—artists or objects that seemed romantic all those years ago. I never buy anything purely for its value. I like possessions that smile back at me.
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Artist
Looks
Years
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I tend to look out for things with a resonance to my youth - artists or objects that seemed romantic all those years ago. I never buy anything purely for its value. I like possessions that smile back at me.
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Resonance
Youth
Possessions
Purely
Seemed
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I go to Topman at lunchtime and stare at these beautiful, beautiful people who work there and who are so well-dressed. And I think: 'Oh! I want to look like that! They're amazing, how well-dressed they are!'
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Beautiful People
Lunchtime
Stare
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I have always aspired towards other people's looks. When I was young, I loved teddy boys; I thought they looked wonderful. Then I was a cowboy in Arizona, really for the clothes! I had a ranch for five years; I had chaps made of bearskin.
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Arizona
Cowboy
Teddy
Aspired
Chap
People Young Always
Ranch
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Often it's a lack of time, not taste, that leads someone to hire a decorator. A good decorator/client relationship should be like a marriage. The time one puts in needs to be extensive. One needs to listen to them and understand what they like and how they live.
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Taste
Time Good Relationship
Decorator
Extensive
Hire
Leads
Puts
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Sometimes I think it would be nice to share everything I've got with somebody - and sometimes I think I'm very lucky to have the bathroom to myself. But I feel it would be nice to pass on my knowledge. Perhaps because I haven't got children - one wants to educate somebody.
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Bathroom
Educate
Pass
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I didn't want to look distinguished; I wanted to look fun, and also to fade into the street, into the King's Road. If I don't fade into a room at White's, that's fine. My father was chairman of Brooks' and the Beefsteak, and I was brought up in that life, and it bores me rigid.
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Bores
Brooks
Distinguished
Fade
Rigid
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Vanity is not having facelifts if you're ugly. Those people who say: 'Oh, I'd never dream of having anything done!' That's rude. It's rude, to other people, to not try and look your best; to not try and stir things up, to not reinvent... or just invent... it's one's duty to not get stuffy.
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Best Look People
Invent
Reinvent
Stir
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