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I don't know if I'm all that famous. When I first started my idea of what a career in fashion would look like is very different to the reality now.

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There are a lot of things about my career now that are as I imagined, hoped for and worked towards.
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Grace! It's Christmas for goodness sake! Think about the baby Jesus. Up in that tower letting his hair down, so that the three wise men could climb up and spin the dreidel and see if there's six more weeks of winter!
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OK, Rule number 1: Unless you're served in a frosted glass, never come within 4 feet of my lips.
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Even when I'm writing in character I'm normally still writing about things I know or things that have happened to me or using that character to start an exploration of my own consciousness. Really though, any character that you can examine is just an examination of a part of your own consciousness.
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Floating in a lake, lying in a hammock, playing a bit of Scrabble...that's what I'm in need of.
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