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" I love restaurants, and I love cooking. "
Mary Quant
Restaurants
Love
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" I still like the King's Road. It is very alive; it is a hustle of things from different countries and so on. It is lovely. "
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" Britain has always had more art schools per capita than any other country. "
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" Let me give you an idea of Fifties Britain. The war had ended ten years before, and most people had returned to their gardens and allotments hoping life would revert to how it was before the hostilities. "
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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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" 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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" As well as being a creative genius, Vidal Sassoon was a formative figure of the Sixties. Along with the Pill and the mini-skirt, his influence was truly liberating. "
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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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" For one thing, I am still working as an adviser on fashion, design and colour and stuff. "
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" One day, a new fabric appeared on the scene. PVC was shiny, waterproof, and unlike anything I'd ever seen before. "
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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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" 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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" London style is individual. "
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" The miniskirt caused an extraordinarily powerful reaction. There were the people who hated it. "
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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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Never
" 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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" I have an awful lot of energy. "
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" People call things 'vulgar' when they are new to them. When they have become old, they become 'good taste.' "
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" I can't imagine not working, really. I just think work's more fun than fun. "
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" In America, they never make anything without first having a market survey to ask the public what they want. People only ask for things they already know about, so you don't get anything new that way. That's why American fashion is stuck. "
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" I've always loved painting and drawing. I wish I'd developed it more and exhibited. "
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