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" People only see permissiveness in the sense of having more. "

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" For one thing, I am still working as an adviser on fashion, design and colour and stuff. "

" I have been on a diet since 1962. "

" 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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