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" Eating outdoors is a particular passion - that is, eating trestle-table a la nicoise. "
Mary Quant
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" For one thing, I am still working as an adviser on fashion, design and colour and stuff. "
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" The Lord's Prayer is the most perfect piece of poetry. I always feel at peace and moved when I recite it. "
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" I have been on a diet since 1962. "
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" I liked masculine fabrics: Prince of Wales checks, city pinstripes, and flannels - worn with black tights, flattish shoes. "
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" I absolutely adore cows. They're the most fascinating, gentle and beautiful animals. Their eyes are so amazing. I have ten that live on the land around my house. I love to talk to them. There are few things better than falling asleep in a field and being woken up by an inquisitive cow. "
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" Most of my memories of the Sixties are ones of optimism, high spirits and confidence. "
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" The whole 1960s thing was a ten-year running party, which was lovely. It started at the end of the 1950s and sort of faded a bit when it became muddled with flower power. It was marvelous. "
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" I love restaurants, and I love cooking. "
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" In the old parts of Nice, the family tables are out in the cobbled streets so that you can't drive past. They insist you join them at midnight on a hot July evening. So that's just what you do, abandoning the car. "
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Drive
Evening
" People call things 'vulgar' when they are new to them. When they have become old, they become 'good taste.' "
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Old
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" The miniskirt caused an extraordinarily powerful reaction. There were the people who hated it. "
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" A woman is as young as her knees. "
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Her
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" My favourite Nice restaurant is in the market. It's open mainly for the market people, and shuts in August. "
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" The fashionable woman is sexy, witty, and dry-cleaned. "
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" Good taste is death; vulgarity is life. "
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" Of course, I remember when everybody was thin. It wasn't until I went to America in the Sixties that I saw anyone who wasn't skinny thin. "
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Remember
Skinny
" I dressed like Leslie Caron as a teenager: soft school pleats, Peter Pan collars. "
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Dressed
Like
" Jean Shrimpton was the most beautiful of all the models I have known. To walk down the King's Road, Chelsea, with Shrimpton was like walking through the rye. Strong men just keeled over right and left as she strode up the street. "
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" Britain has always had more art schools per capita than any other country. "
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" I long for my garden to be complete. Working in it is one of my joys, but it will never be finished because it's forever changing with the seasons. "
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Seasons
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" The real creators of miniskirt are the girls, the same that you seen in the streets. "
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Seen
" Vidal Sassoon changed hair forever. "
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Hair
Changed
" I remember one day, when things were going frightfully well, I went to buy myself a really smashing car. I asked them to show me a Porsche with an automatic gearbox, and the salesman called over all the other salesmen, and they stood around absolutely roaring with laughter. "
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" As a child, I used to spend nearly all my summer holidays with my aunt in Wales, and we used to catch mackerel in a boat and then cook them on board. "
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" I've always loved painting and drawing. I wish I'd developed it more and exhibited. "
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" I designed the miniskirt that caused so much havoc in the Sixties - the miniskirt that was such fun but has travelled well to today. "
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" I always designed clothes from a very young age because I didn't like the way they were. They were paralyzing; they were stilted. "
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" Fashion is a very ongoing, renewing thing, about change and reaching for the next thing. You are permanently dissatisfied, and it's always got to get better. "
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" My garden in England is full of eating-out places, for heat waves, warm September evenings, or lunch on a frosty Christmas morning. "
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