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I don't dress for effect, and I think that it never works out when someone does.
Daphne Guinness
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Daphne Guinness
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: November 9
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London
England
Daphne Diana Joan Susanna Guinness
Daphne Suzannah Diana Guinness
Hon. Daphne Suzannah Diana Guinness
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I know sometimes I can come off like a lonely spinster in a tower. That's not me at all.
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I don't like to look at myself in the mirror, which is why my eye makeup is always crooked.
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I spend a lot of time upside down. It increases the blood flow to the brain, so it really helps your creativity.
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But things don't necessarily have to be that expensive to be good. As long as they are expensive enough to last.
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I treat clothing or a piece of jewelry like it was a piece of art.
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I dislike the idea of jewellery being like a price tag around someone's neck. It needs to be something else - and there is something extremely magical about armour.
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As I got older I looked at the world and I realised, we need armour. So my jewellery and clothes became my armour
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I practice stoic philosophy. As a human being, you may have emotions, but these don't need to affect your soul. The two are not one.
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My basic mathematics is rather weak, so when some of the theories are broken into equations, I get rather lost.
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Memories are like mercury. Every time you sort of try to get near them, they slip out of your hand like a bar of soap.
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If I eat, I can't work. I'll eat when I'm dead.
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Sunglasses are great, but I always feel a bit pretentious wearing sunglasses. I mean, I do love to wear them.
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