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Nicky Haslam

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  1. “Seven I got polio, yes. I was on a beach in Scotland when I got it riding, and I remember that sort of bolt of pain coming through my sight, but then I was paralysed I didn't feel anything. And in fact I am quite philosophical, I suppose. I just thought this has happened and didn't seem to worry me.”

    2009-08-02 · Desert Island Discs · Nicky Haslam · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  2. “It was in Buckinghamshire, near Great Bisden, and it was a very pretty sort of sixteen seventy with a Mary perfect sort of doll's house, I said doll's house, it was a farm, but was very regular.”

    2009-08-02 · Desert Island Discs · Nicky Haslam · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  3. “It was a four I remember it very well, yes, it was dined by Jeffrey Scott, four post bed with wonderful cream coloured sort of canopy with silver gadroning on it, and it was very high. Beds were much higher in those days, and I had to really haul myself up onto the bed.”

    2009-08-02 · Desert Island Discs · Nicky Haslam · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  4. “It's Nat Gunella singing the Isle of Capri, and it's the first noise in the sense that I remember I remember when I was three or four climbing into my mother's bed in the morning and hearing this song. And force, sir, I haven't heard it since, so you're brilliant to have it.”

    2009-08-02 · Desert Island Discs · Nicky Haslam · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  5. “Yes, I think I just never felt convinced by it, and I'm trying to look up to date too. I think that's quite important. You'll further and Gertrude Stein said, and it's absolutely true one must be modern.”

    2009-08-02 · Desert Island Discs · Nicky Haslam · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  6. “I suppose it was several different looks, I mean I'd see people in the street and say I want to look like that, either punk or Liam Gallagher or just people I admired. I'm a terrible copycat and chameleon. I quite like looking like other people. I'm not very keen on my own looks is the truth. I'd quite like to make myself different. I quite like disguise in a funny way.”

    2009-08-02 · Desert Island Discs · Nicky Haslam · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  7. “Partly because I just simply couldn't afford to be away from work, and I went to work the next day after I'd had it, wearing big hat and sunglasses, and my face was the size of a football.”

    2009-08-02 · Desert Island Discs · Nicky Haslam · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  8. “Well, it was the main of the facelift. I mean, I'd always talked about it for so long, and then I've met this enchanting man called Brown Mayu. Then I went to him and I said, This one's with a few wrinkles taken away, this, that and the other, and I saw him write down N has them full facelift. Most people.”

    2009-08-02 · Desert Island Discs · Nicky Haslam · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  9. “Well, I've got quite good legs. I'm lucky about that, which is odd because I had polio to have good legs, but I'm not in good shape, but I'm better in clothes than not.”

    2009-08-02 · Desert Island Discs · Nicky Haslam · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  10. “I loved Miss Randa by the young and I love to see how the young look and try and squeeze it onto myself Doing a good job.”

    2009-08-02 · Desert Island Discs · Nicky Haslam · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  11. “Top to two. It's a pink and mauve sort of pays the shirt and of course it's top man because I live in top man. You go there and you see how beautifully people dress and you want to copy every one of them. And grey jeans, very narrow, turned up at the ankles now, which is apparently as the fashion has to follow it, with no socks and white shoes.”

    2009-08-02 · Desert Island Discs · Nicky Haslam · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  12. “Well, this is Mariakalus, who I've always admired above any other opera singer, I think, singing de Pile Jour from Charpentier's opera Louise. It's rather a dull opera, but it does have this most ravishing aria in it, and I once sent it to the Princess of Wales, saying I think this is the most utilise I ever heard, and she agreed.”

    2009-08-02 · Desert Island Discs · Nicky Haslam · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  13. “Yes, often. Well, I don't miss it when I don't do it, so maybe I wouldn't, but I've never haven't been cast away before, so I'm rather looking forward to experience.”

    2009-08-02 · Desert Island Discs · Nicky Haslam · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  14. “It doesn't matter to me if people think that because I know perfectly well that it's not my actual career being a party goer, it's part of the fun of life in the aftermath of one's career, perhaps, and I think it brings my life into the present and my work into the present all the time.”

    2009-08-02 · Desert Island Discs · Nicky Haslam · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  15. “Yes, I think that is true. I don't have a stamp, but I have a signature. Also, I do think it's important that there's humour in a decor as well as beauty and elegance and comfort and all the things that everybody knows should be there. I try and inject that last moment of humour.”

    2009-08-02 · Desert Island Discs · Nicky Haslam · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  16. “Well, I think I do work quite hard and I certainly try to not make it too apparent because I think that if people work too hard and show it they tend to not enlighten the world or their friends, and I think it's very important to make one's friends happy.”

    2009-08-02 · Desert Island Discs · Nicky Haslam · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source