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Amanda Harlech

(1959) Writer

20 quotes in 222 categories

Amanda Harlech is a writer.

Quick Facts About Amanda Harlech

Born: January 1, 1959
Profession: Writer

About Amanda Harlech

[Wikidata] British writer... | [Wikipedia] Amanda Jane Ormsby-Gore, Baroness Harlech, is a British creative consultant, writer and actress with a long association with the couturiers John Galliano and Karl Lagerfeld. She was named to the International Best Dressed List Hall of Fame in 1997.

Quotes by Amanda Harlech

I think the artistic process comes from disorder. When you are happy, it's not always a feeling that you can identify. It's…

Also

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People think of me as a stereotype: muse, privileged, decorative. Classically, the muses were the inspiration. They'd come and go - they…

Actually

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We have to keep an eye on the future with a sense of the past in every passing moment of the present.

Every

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At home, I love reaching out into that absolute silence, when you can hear the owl or the wind.

Absolute

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I don't think I am a proud person, but I think my children are incredible... I think I am part of that.

Am

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Writing is something I should have done more of, it's a form of coming home.

Coming

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My earliest childhood memory is watching the sunlight through a jar of amber full of wasps.

Amber

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I'm interested in stories. I think I'm a bit of a pathfinder.

Bit

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Our idea of happiness, some of it, is very tied to the cult of celebrity: there is this golden, wonderful life that…

Celebrity

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I think fashion, mishandled, can be quite toxic. It becomes about image and the cult of celebrity. I think when an artist…

About

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Contemporary culture is like the weather - we have to be open to it. I don't like the way it is dismissed…

Closed

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I think the most destructive thing is fear: when people don't want to say what they think.

Destructive

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Couture has a power that ready-to-wear can never have; the attention of les petites mains as they sew; all that love and…

Attention

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As women, we need to remember: don't be a doormat!

Doormat

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Style is anti-fashion; it's not about following trends.

Fashion

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I think I am really easygoing. Well... as I was about halfway through that sentence, I thought, 'No, actually you're really picky.'…

About

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I am not good wife material because I'm fiercely independent and like to go off and do my own thing.

Am

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I didn't want to get divorced, but at the point where your children are part of it, you have to do something.…

Away

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You know that gap between where you are and where you'd like to be? Within that gap, there is an ache and…

Aches

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I do quite a lot of art, with a small 'a'. I guess that is how I was dredged up, with paints…

Art

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