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The Jane Campion interview
Publication: Other Articles
We're in a restaurant eating oysters. Jane Campion says to me, 'What I am trying to do is to keep space for the unknown.'
Tall, healthy, with great presence, and a solid hold on reality, Jane Campion is a believer in energetic emptiness - maybe it's her yoga training that keeps her mind as well as her body supple.
'The unknown is frightening. If you spend all your time in front of the TV or on the computer, you can avoid your mind.'
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Once upon a Shop
Publication: Observer
I opened my first fruit and veg shop in Spitalfields in 1805...
At least that is how it feels to me because my 1790's tiny London townhouse plus shop started selling Kent cabbages and Irish potatoes during the Napoleonic Wars and the year of the Battle of Trafalgar. While Nelson was gunning the French, we were selling onions the size of cannonballs.
My shop is right opposite Spitalfields Market, now full of chic shops and funky stalls, but formally the fruit and veg market for London, just as Covent Garden was the flower market, Smithfield the meat market, and Billingsgate, the fishmarket.
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Manon Lescaut
Publication: The Times
Punk band Good Charlotte's hit - Girls Don't Like Boys, Girls like Cars and Money, isn't an operatic aria but it is yet another riff on the old theme of women as gold- diggers and chancers, heart-breakers who are careless with money and fickle in love.
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about Anne Lister
Publication: Other Articles
'It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.'
When Pride and Prejudice was published in 1813 it is certain that Anne Lister's reading of that opening sentence would have included herself - and not as the wife
Anne Lister loved women. Born in 1791 to a military family, she later inherited Shibden Hall, two miles outside of Halifax, and knew that she needed a wife.
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THE JERWOOD CONTEMPORARY MAKERS SHOW
Publication: Visual Arts
The most satisfying thing a human being can do - and the sexiest - is to make something.
Life is about relationship - to each other - and to the material world. Making something is a relationship
The verb is the clue. We make love, we make babies, we make dinner, we make sense, we make a difference, we make it up, we make it new....
True, we sometimes make a mess, but creativity never was a factory finish.
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