David Linley Quotes

David Linley

Profession : Royalty

Birth : November 3, 1961

Good design is probably something that has been thoroughly thought through to a point of resolution.

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As a child, I was always interested in woodworking and making things.

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My father and I share a passion for how things work, which in my case took the form of schoolboy fascination with machines and mechanical contraptions.

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Californians are not so precious about their antiques, not so nervous about what others will think if they mix classic with modern, old with new.

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When I would visit my Granny as a little boy, we would play this game of closing our eyes and describing everything around us. The color of a tie. The shade of a cloth. It was really quite a wonderful way to learn how to look, to notice things and to appreciate what is around you.

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I love wood. I love its permanence, its way of changing hue over the years, its way of expanding and contracting, of moving or aging and growing better and more beautiful with time.

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I really do build furniture to be used, you see, to be lived with.

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I'm not technically royal.

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Someone did once bow to me, and my mother immediately told them off. Although whether she was prompted by the breach of protocol or the fact I enjoyed it a little too much, I really couldn't say.

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Horse Guards is my favourite building in London.

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I'm incredibly boring and logical, so if I have a problem I will try and fix that problem.

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It's far nicer to congregate around a card table than a television. It takes me back to my childhood, when we'd play family card games like Racing Demon.

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I am not really a football man but I have always supported Chelsea because we lived there. We have been through the lows.

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My parents had this extraordinary circle of friends. My father would be photographing somebody every day, someone from the world of the arts, a politician, a musician, a sportsman.

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I was very lucky, my parents were very encouraging, and both my grandmothers. They had exquisite taste.

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Pepys was such a meticulous person that he had little wooden blocks to make all the books on his shelves the same height.

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Some of my best moments have been in friends' libraries. They give you a sense of quiet, well-being and order that a media room does not.

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I would prefer to be called David Linley. No one refers to me as Lord Linley in London. It's an American thing.

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My parents are very supportive of my work. It's my father who encourages me to keep going and my mother she's very proud. She's keen that I do something creative rather than just printing money in some city bank, you know which I couldn't have done, anyway.

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