Top 77 Erin O'Connor Quotes
#1. When I was 13 or 14, my parents had a bit of a windfall so bought a lovely new kitchen, but I burnt it down. I was making cheese on toast when flames escaped from the grill. My father stopped the fire with blind panic and excessive water. I was forgiven, but it put me off cooking for years.
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#2. As a small child, me and my pals fantasised about one day owning an ice-cream van. To have ice creams on demand would have been a dream come true.
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#3. I think most of my career has been built on conviction and the personality to carry that image or stride confidently on the catwalk. That was my beginning and, hopefully, my legacy.
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#4. It's not about hiding your imperfections on a shoot; it's about embracing them and being unapologetic about them.
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#5. It's a big shame that when you have a platform to write about Save the Children, the media interest lies with my moral alignment.
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#6. I'm too diplomatic. I tend to edit my mind before I speak - it can be incredibly draining.
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#7. I think most models fear growing old, but from a tender age I had always chosen to play someone grown up. I am slowly but surely catching up with the people that I have spent the last decade and a half trying to portray.
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#8. We won't get economic growth if we don't look after our mothers and the potential of the next generation. They need to be prioritised.
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#9. I love the sun, but we don't get on at all; it doesn't agree with my Celtic tones. I also like nothing better than putting on a big ski jacket and feeling the wind in my face.
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#10. I love the physicality of my job and how my mind and body are most happy when I'm expressing and moving. My face was always secondary to body alignment and the dynamism of making a moment come alive.
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#11. In my career, which has been fairly two-dimensional, people make decisions based on your persona.
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#12. I am the world's laziest shopper, but very rarely have I had to take anything back.
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#14. I've worn a lot of humdingers in my time, but as a model it's my duty - my responsibility - to bring life to any garment. That can be challenging when it comes to high fashion, where the creations can be very eccentric, but I've gained a reputation for being the go-to girl who can pull it off.
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#15. Fear has been my biggest friend. Fear of the unknown. Whenever I've been afraid, I've been very self-protective.
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#17. I take my mentoring responsibilities very seriously.
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#18. I have two curiosity cabinets at home filled with finds from jumble sales, markets and my travels. My favourite piece is a voodoo mask from just outside Cape Town.
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#19. My perfect bag would be practical but also have the stylish element to it; it would be bold and colourful. I would actually be able to open and close it. That would be a first.
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#20. I seem to disappoint people a bit. They want the full regalia - but I don't walk around in a corset the whole time.
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#21. A girl must have an indefinable magic, real character, a strong sense of self. Her role is to respond to the brief of a photographer or communicate the vision of a designer - while making whatever she does look utterly effortless and whatever she wears utterly seamless.
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#22. I have previously been a very enthusiastic consumer, and I didn't think about the origins of garments enough.
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#23. Someone once referred to modeling as being like winning the lottery gene pool. It's such an odd way to put things, but what is different about modelling is that the industry often picks you.
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#24. When I first began modeling, I was very conventional looking. I had hair down to my waist in a side parting - almost church-like. But beneath the sheath of hair lay this Amazonian, strong-looking frame.
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#25. For my last meal, I'd want an Irish breakfast with soda bread and one of my dad's omelettes with three or four eggs.
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#26. My hair is an untidy bob. I am very dark, but I embellish the roots because I am white in one clump.
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#27. The model sanctuary was borne of a complex, political, societal debate. It was proposed to us from various bodies that we give models medicals once a year, and if they didn't pass that medical, there's a chance they'd legally lose their right to work.
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#28. Starting my career in London was no accident because the city and the industry here are all about theatre and drama, and I respond well to that.
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#29. It makes me cross when I hear people say, 'It's so last season.' I always say, 'It's vintage.'
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#30. I'm interested in looking for solutions because it's become the case that in fashion you're either a villain or a victim. Look at the industry's very limited remit in terms of body size, for example.
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#31. I have a regular cleansing, toning and moisturising routine.
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#33. My style has been nurtured over time. It's more about knowing what doesn't suit you. I love suits and anything sharp, and I know that shape suits me. I don't feel feminine in floaty dresses with spaghetti straps - I feel more like Freddie Mercury in drag.
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#35. It's like recycling: selling old clothes to help make new ones.
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#36. Rejection is, of course, part of any successful model's career, as ironic as that sounds. It's how you pick yourself up and get on with the job.
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#37. When I was at primary school, we had this theory that if you ate an egg, it meant you'd get pregnant and give birth to a chicken or another egg. It was something we dared together. I avoided eggs for years, but now they're my favourite food.
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#38. I enjoy travelling the world, but nowhere beats Walsall.
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#39. In my work, I'm called to a job at the drop of a hat, so I like a sense of order to my holidays, and holding a map makes me happy.
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#40. Caution is the key to safe cycling. I'm aware that cars are bigger than me, but I feel quite safe. I'm in control, liberated and free, when I'm on my bike.
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#41. In the early days of my modelling career, I think the industry was uncomfortable with how strikingly different I was.
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#42. I knew I'd made it when my face appeared on a stamp.
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#43. In my job, I am portrayed as a misfit, a grandiose high fashion lady or an unearthly creature. At home, it's important I can look in the mirror, strip away the disguise and be comfortable with who stares back.
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#44. Cycling is a great way to learn about your city. I love being outdoors, especially in good weather, but I'm not a fair weather cyclist. I'm happy to get a red nose in the cold.
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#45. I've enjoyed many camping holidays with my sister and her children, but we're pretty posh campers.
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#46. I am aware it's easy and may be fashionable to pose with a slum child, and the irony of getting the media along means that it can come across as disingenuous. But you take these things on board, and you hope you mean it whenever you get stuck into something.
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#47. I am selective. If I do splash out, it's an investment, and I wear things for years.
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#48. I would say I live half in New York and half in Claridge's. How decadent! How hysterical!
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#49. I had one particular handbag disaster when I couldn't get into it, and when I finally did, it flew over the red carpet and was caught by 200 lenses. Not a great moment.
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#50. Clothes are like a suit of armour when you're young. I was quite a shy teen, so I wanted to make aggressive statements with the way I looked. I'd say my goth/indie stage was the worst: there was a lot of experimentation involving pink food dye in my fringe.
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#51. When you're physically growing up, you develop emotionally with that.
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#52. My plan growing up was to leave home and try not to panic. I always knew that to strive to be self-sufficient was an important ambition.
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#53. Growing up, I had an insane crush on Neil Tennant of the Pet Shop Boys.
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#54. Conformism is a potent statement, and as much as we do talk about individuality in fashion, there's a sense that people are fearful of not conforming and not being part of action.
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#55. I do like shopping high street, but I do consider the long-term value of a specific piece and, also, one day giving it up for somebody else to love and enjoy.
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#56. I think there is some resistance when people talk about ethical fashion, and a tendency to panic that if you're bringing a moral agenda and highlighting the origins of the garments, you can't incorporate style. But there's no reason why style and conscience can't co-exist.
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#57. As a model, part of my job is to be critiqued physically.
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#58. The great outdoors is a theme with me; a walking holiday in Scotland is perfect - Culloden and the forests of Aviemore are both favourites.
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#59. Water - I drink gallons of it! You can use the most luxurious skincare products in the world, but they won't work as well if you do not hydrate from inside.
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#60. I can play the flute. Music was my favourite A-level, and I used to love composing my and stylising my voice to sound like 90's singing sensation Tori Amos.
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#61. I lead a very busy life and don't have a lot of time, so my skincare needs to be easy and portable.
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#62. I'm utterly androgynous, and I truly love it. It's been part of my identity for so long. I've never been that pretty girl, and I wouldn't want to be.
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#63. I am rubbish at the gym. I prefer to exercise by moving around - it doesn't matter whether I am dancing on a Friday night or on my bike getting from A to B.
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#64. How awful to be a perfect beauty! How confusing! God. Can you imagine?
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#65. There are great slender models, great tall models, Amazonian models, great busty models - my point is models of all shapes and sizes, age, ethnic background should be embraced and celebrated.
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#66. I love vintage clothes. But they don't love me very much. It is difficult to find anything that fits me because of my height, but if I do fall in love with something, I'll buy it and display it like a work of art at home.
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#67. I want to show that we all have the right to be ourselves, and I certainly don't want to freeze time.
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#68. I am concerned about ageism and the loss of beauty - the perception that as you grow older, you 'lose your looks,' which I think is diabolical.
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#69. I worry about how accessible cosmetic surgery has become. Of course, if it has genuinely helped people, and their confidence has grown as a result; who am I to form an opinion?
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#70. Fashion is intoxicating, and it plays a part in all of our everyday lives. A lot of people use it as a form of escape, of realising a fantasy, and in some ways that becomes an unobtainable norm.
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#71. As a child I wanted to be a ballerina, ice-cream van owner, wife of George Michael, a nun, and a music conductor.
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#72. As I began to get a deeper understanding of the vital life-saving work Save the Children does, I felt compelled to help in any way I could. This is about safe-keeping, inspiring and empowering a future generation - to facilitate them to make their own lives a little bit better.
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#73. I've been cycling ever since I was a kid. I remember taking my cycling proficiency test aged seven - I got to school at 7:30 A.M. to practise, I was so nervous. After that, I always cycled to school.
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#74. I understood early on that I was not the best-looking girl in the room. But I knew my advantage was a hard work ethic and I was ambitious: I knew I could be a great model.
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#77. It's a very intimate thing to invite someone into your home; there's a lot of trust involved.
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