Top 36 Quotes by Anouska Hempel

About Anouska Hempel

These are some quotes by New Zealander author Anouska Hempel Actress, who was born on December 13, 1941.

My father wanted a boy. I was supposed to be called Albert. That was probably the beginning of why things got so complicated, because I wasn't a boy.

My father wanted a boy. I was supposed to be called Albert. That was probably the beginning of why things got so complicated, because I wasn't a boy.

Anouska Hempel

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.

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.

Anouska Hempel

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

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

Anouska Hempel

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.

Anouska Hempel

Design, refine and repeat, and keep learning all the way along. It sounds bland and pedestrian, but in fact, it's the reverse.

Design, refine and repeat, and keep learning all the way along. It sounds bland and pedestrian, but in fact, it's the reverse.

Anouska Hempel

'It can't be done' is not a phrase I recognize.

'It can't be done' is not a phrase I recognize.

Anouska Hempel

I'd always been acutely sensitive to my surroundings - and aware that I could make them rather than just observe them. So I began by designing interiors for myself, for friends, for clients - I just felt that I'd discovered my element, and those who really looked at what I was doing liked it - and the rest followed.

Anouska Hempel

I get up in the morning, look around, arrange and rearrange things, and imagine how I might like them to look. Why doesn't everybody?

I get up in the morning, look around, arrange and rearrange things, and imagine how I might like them to look. Why doesn't everybody?

Anouska Hempel

You've got to be the best at what you can do - be the best at it! And the best has to be the best; you can't just fiddle around and hope.

You've got to be the best at what you can do - be the best at it! And the best has to be the best; you can't just fiddle around and hope.

Anouska Hempel

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

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

Anouska Hempel

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