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"If there was a distraction I'd get up and jump out the window. I was quite out of hand. In schools like that I don't think they expect that girls are going to behave in such an outrageous fashion."
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"In the fashion industry, everything goes retro except the prices."
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"And once we reach the city, my stylist will dictate my look for the opening ceremonies tonight anyway. I just hope I get one who doesn't think nudity is the last word in fashion."
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"Just when I think I hate fashion, I hate clothes, I'm seized by this crazy thing that I have to do. I have this little studio now where I just draw. I can be in the room for three days and not even look up."
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"The fashion of the world is to avoid cost, and you encounter it."
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"People wouldn't know this about me, but I adore ball gowns. I love their cut, their architecture and the thought of the hands of so many seamstresses working on them."
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"I enjoy doing fashion shows and transforming myself into different looks for photo shoots."
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"I'm like old shoes. I've never been hip. I think the reason I'm still here is that I was never enough in fashion that I had to be replaced by something new."
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"He who goes against the fashion is himself its slave."
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"I think the rising and falling popularity of areas like hard SF and far-future SF is, to a considerable extent, the same as any other fashion."
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"I base my fashion taste on what doesn't itch."
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"Once, the parental bed collapsed because all the children sat on it at once."
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"I didn't know what to do with myself. I wasn't excited by the teaching of the school. If they'd been intent on really teaching you things, I would have been a little more attentive."
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"If you've got a lot of children, I think you let the other children bring them up more and you just sort of step in and do stuff like every now and again."
Children

"I sort of was good at writing essays. I was never very good at mathematics, and I was never very good at algebra. I loved science, but I wasn't sure of it."
Science

"I never used to sleep much. I think we all go through a bit of a time like that where we rage about. If we don't, I don't think you've ever really lived."
Time

"Blank House was exactly a nice empty sheet where nothing was accountable because you were so naughty that you were in Blank House."
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"The most surprising thing for my mother and father was when I was actually earning more money than them by the time I was about 18. They thought I was going to be the ne'er do well, who they'd have to keep worrying about."
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"I learnt the theory of movement, which I still teach sometimes. I was very, very ambitious to learn a skill."
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"I was often very, incredibly naughty, and if I didn't come home at tea time I used to be sent to bed without any dinner. But people used to bring me things: I was better fed in bed."
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"My father said, If you want to do acting, you have to be successful, which is a silly thing to say."
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