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like these blonde bimbos, but they’re not for me. Where’s the challenge in that?’

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‘I sound like a loony.’

‘You get so busy fannying around in different pairs of trousers in tunnels and rivers that there really isn’t any time to be intimidated.’

‘Lucienne Day made her “1e 1 2m Of iconic name with Calyx, a radical fabric design which was first shown at the Battle of Britain in 1951.’

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