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" A quintessential experience is to raft the Rio Grande through the Blue Mountains, stopping off at waterfalls and having picnics of barbecued fish. "
Off
Fish
Experience
" Art is the ultimate luxury good, but one that can make you think, give a you a blast of beauty and enhance your life. Even if the work's made of plasticine. "
Good
Work
Think
" Buenos Aires is easily one of the most stylish cities in the world with its eclectic collection of neighborhoods, each with its own unique charm. "
World
Unique
Charm
" Fastidious attention to detail makes the difference between an OK service and first class service. "
First
Class
Detail
" For me, a stay at the Uma Paro with Pilates every morning is a perfect escape. "
Me
Escape
Morning
" For me, life is not about gold taps and marble all over the place. "
Place
Me
Marble
" I definitely like sorting stuff out, and I have the enthusiasm to try and help. "
Like
Enthusiasm
Try
" I don't believe that saying things because you feel they are what people want to hear is the right way to be in any part of your life. "
Feel
You
Saying
" I don't set out to be connected. My business has allowed me to meet lots of interesting people, some of whom have become friends; but you can't force it. This terrible word - 'networking' - I really hate. "
People
You
Business
" I eat out three times a day most days of the year. This is no big deal to most New Yorkers, and it is not something I am necessarily proud of - it's simply the nature of my itinerant life. "
Nature
Three
Life
" If people don't feel they've got your attention, you're not going to succeed. "
Feel
You
Attention
" I have an issue with others ordering for me, and I spend far too long haranguing people that my choices are the best. I apologize for the amount of conversations I have ruined with this attitude. "
Far
People
Me
" I have to be passionate about everything I do. "
Passionate
About
Everything
" I'm not going to complain to New Yorkers about working too hard. "
Working
Too
Hard
" In the same way I am addicted to puddings - the sweeter the better - I have become addicted to the daily routines my Pilates and Gyrotonic guru, Nada, puts me through. "
Become
Better
Me
" I think people might say I'm a bit of a sucker for punishment. "
People
Punishment
Sucker
" It's not marriage that I crave. Many of my friends who have married are pretty miserable. Within a year and a half, most of them are either unhappy or divorced. "
Friends
Unhappy
Miserable
" I've always been fascinated by India and its color and vibrancy. I worked in Madhya Pradesh in the Kanha National Game reserve before university, and it is probably the most intoxicating country I have ever visited. "
Always
Color
Country
" My father instilled in me an attitude that you couldn't really enjoy yourself unless you had done something to deserve it. So, my childhood was spent working on farms or local shops or, when I got older, in banks. "
Attitude
Childhood
Father
" My obsession with eating out partly comes from having spent 10 long years at English boarding schools in the 1980s, where food was pretty low on the list. "
Food
Pretty
Obsession
" Since childhood, I have been a cricket fanatic. "
Childhood
Cricket
Since
" There are a lot of laws from Europe about employing people which are absolute nonsense. "
People
Lot
Laws
" The way I choose to live my own life rates time and space as real luxuries. "
Choose
Time
Space
" What goes around comes around in business, and it's better to help people out rather than bill them every time you speak to them. "
People
You
Time
" When the truth does not get printed, damage is done. "
Truth
Printed
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