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I wasn't academically successful. And maybe I've spent a lot of my career trying to make up for that.

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Anna Wintour
Age: 74
Born: 1949
Born: November 3
Editor
Fashion Editor
Journalist
Magazine Editor
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London
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Dame Anna Wintour
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