"It just looked right, " he states in that way designers have of not being able to explain exactly why they did what they did.

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The tiny sheikhdom of Dubai, just a few years earlier known as a place that looked the other way as extremists transferred money through its banks and Iran shipped weapons parts through its ports, had transformed itself into the Gulf state most openly cooperating in the war on terror.

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It's sad really, you know, they way that we're looked upon, just English people in general you know.

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And that song, for me, was just about me being able to appreciate my body, the way that I looked, no matter how it was.

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