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Eccentric is a difficult word because it's come to mean crazy. Avant-garde would be better. Eccentric is not centric in terms of having a center. Because sometimes it's used in a derogatory context.

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Daphne Guinness
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: November 9
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London
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Life is full of banana skins. You slip, you carry on.
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I'd quite like to have one place where I stay put. And I don't like living in cities all the time. In order to have ideas, you have to have some peace and quiet.
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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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I can't understand it when people are closed-minded. I mean, boy, have I made mistakes and been very wrong. I can't tell you the amounts of times I've been let down, but I still try to see the best in people.
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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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Elizabeth Taylor was never told what to wear or paid to carry a certain handbag.
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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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Fragrance takes you on a journey of time. You can walk down the street and pass someone and get taken back 20 years. It's very Proustian that way.
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Fashion is not just about trends. It's about political history. You can trace it from the ancient Romans to probably until the '80s, and you can see defining moments that were due either to revolutions or changes in politics.
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I really try to understand what people are saying and answer as honestly as I can. But sometimes it's like they try to tie you into knots. That's why I mostly steer clear of the popular press. I try not to read . . . Well, I never read gossip press. I just read books. And I never switch on the TV any more.
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I don't approach fashion fashion approaches me!
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People always assume I don't need to work for money, but my divorce settlement was not as much as it's always reported to be.
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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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If you go into a relationship when you're 16, you've got no baggage.
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