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I'll tell you what I was like as a child. I was a good person. I was high-spirited but I was a big reader.

Vivienne Westwood

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Vivienne Westwood
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: April 8
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Derbyshire
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I really don't like women who try to be men. All these politicians, I think they're horrendous. We could have a brilliant future, but we have this terrible male vision of destroying everything. They'd better sort themselves out and become more womanly.
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Being part of a community with a church at its centre and singin' hymns is a great thing to do.
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Journalists are usually quite jealous people, especially of intellectuals who are supposed to be in fashion.
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When I was a little girl you used to learn to sew all the holes in things, darning socks, but nobody mends things anymore.
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I was the first person to have a punk rock hairstyle.
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If you hear Anarchy in the UK today your hair stands on end. It gives you the shivers.
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The capitalist system is about taking from the Earth and from the other great commodity, labour. What's happening with this system is that the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer, and the only way out of it is supposed to be growth. But growth is debt. It's going to make the situation worse.
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I remember reading a book set in the future, it was written in the 1870s projecting to 1920, and this time traveler said you couldn't tell the difference between men and women. He saw what was coming.
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I always tried to do things by example, even though I was not a very good mother regarding routines and family life.
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All that self-expression has just created a generation of morons, hooked on an endless appetite for rubbish.
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If you wear clothes that don't suit you, you're a fashion victim. You have to wear clothes that make you look better.
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I'm always attracted to people who interest me. They've got to be people who are really true to themselves somehow, and who are always trying to do something that makes their life more interesting, or better, or something for somebody else. They're interested in people.
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If you ask me what I think people should be getting next season, I’ll tell you what I’d like them to buy—nothing. I’d like people to stop buying and buying and buying.
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I own my own company, so I've never had businessmen telling me what to do or getting worried if something doesn't sell. I've always had my own access to the public, because I started off making my clothes for a little shop and so I've always had people buying them.
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