Author Profile
Dawn O'Porter
1979 • British • Writer
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Collected Meditations
Showing 62 quotesIn Hollywood most of the films we see are all about the relationships between lovers, but as massively important as that is in someone's life, my relationships with women have always been really dramatic and powerful.— Dawn O'Porter
When I read my own diary, a lot of those feelings came flooding back, such as the idea that the first boy you fall in love with will be your last. You can never imagine that you could ever love anyone else and that they're just the one.— Dawn O'Porter
I couldn't keep up with trends, I couldn't really be fashionable. But I really loved clothes. And then I discovered a vintage shop, and realised that I could dress for myself rather than for an industry or trend.— Dawn O'Porter
My aunt and uncle, who bought me up, were big players in the fashion industry in London during the 60s. They were furriers and designers, and my aunt dressed some of the major windows on Oxford Street.— Dawn O'Porter
So many designers now look to the past for their inspiration when creating new looks, but if you get one from the past, it won't go out of fashion.— Dawn O'Porter
I want people to fall back in love with clothes like they did in the old days, and value what they buy a little more, and look after clothes better.— Dawn O'Porter
I thought we were getting more liberal as a society, more inclusive and I'm gutted racism has come back stronger with Brexit, devastated and I feel Brexit promotes a racist attitude.— Dawn O'Porter
I've always had this 'carve out your own existence' attitude and I'm always encouraging other people to do this, if they can. Of course not everyone has the choice. I've been lucky.— Dawn O'Porter
Art or no Art, 2015 was already going to be the busiest year of my life. I'm not sure how I'll make it all work yet but I'm feeling like a warrior and I'm prepared to work hard.— Dawn O'Porter
I love the charm of fashion from the past, I love how the clothes were revolutionary and how they changed the way that women lived their lives.— Dawn O'Porter
I read a lot until was about 12, then as a teenager I was more interested in kissing boys. But I kept a diary for a few years, so words were a big part of my teenage years.— Dawn O'Porter
I used to hide behind doors pretending to be a mouse listening to the grown up's conversations. I always wanted to hear them plotting peoples deaths so I could dob them in to the police. unfortunately there were no murderers in my family.— Dawn O'Porter
At school, I had academia shoved in my face, but it was just stunting my creative development.— Dawn O'Porter
I love 80s fashion. I love it because it's what my mum and aunties looked like when I was a little girl. It's what I imagined myself looking like when I was a grown up.— Dawn O'Porter
Working in the shop has taught me how utterly ridiculous the female fear of knees is. It's a bloody knee. It's bone. We can't control our knees, our knees are not our fault. We cannot let this continue, we have to abandon this ridiculous new obsession and set the knee free.— Dawn O'Porter
Apparently only a third of us know our partners phone PIN, so the majority of people keep it secret. I find that really surprising, I think if my husband's PIN was secret I'd be so suspicious of what he was hiding.— Dawn O'Porter