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Intelligence is composed mostly of imagination, insight, things that have nothing to do with reason.

Vivienne Westwood

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Vivienne Westwood
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: April 8
Businessperson
Designer
Fashion Designer
University Teacher
Tintwistle
Derbyshire
Vivienne Isabel Swire
Dame Vivienne Westwood
Dame Vivienne Isabel Westwood
Composed
Mostly
Insight
Intelligence
Imagination
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