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" For one thing, I am still working as an adviser on fashion, design and colour and stuff. "
Mary Quant
Fashion
I Am
Working
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" People only see permissiveness in the sense of having more. "
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" One thing I longed to do was to design a complete look, from head to toe, so I started a make-up line in 1966. "
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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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" I have been on a diet since 1962. "
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" I think to myself, 'You lucky woman - how did you have all this fun?' "
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" I divide my time between all the mud and open space in Surrey and the social life and work in London, particularly Chelsea, which still has the same village feel that it had in the swinging Sixties. "
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" Risk it; go for it. Life always gives you another chance, another go at it. It's very important to take enormous risks. "
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" As the daughter of two teachers with first-class degrees, I'd always seen myself as a duffer by comparison. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" Fashion is not frivolous. It is a part of being alive today. "
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" Having money is rather like being a blond. It is more fun but not vital. "
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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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" I used to start re-arranging my school uniform, hitching up my skirt to be more exciting-looking. "
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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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