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| • | "Gathering her cigarettes and matches, she sits back and smiles silently, her copper-colored hair framing her jagged face", Boston Globe, Sep. 27, '95 |
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| • | "chain-smoking", USA Today, Feb. 1, '96 |
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| • | The Daily Telegraph, Jun. 1, '96 |
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| • | "When we first met, almost a decade ago... an unlit Silk Cut dangled from elegant fingers. Today she... chain-smokes Rothmans through a hacking cough", Daily Mail (Weekend Magazine) (UK), Apr. 24, '99 |
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| • | "an elegant sihouette framed by the smoke of one of her eternal cigarettes", The Express (UK), Sep. 16, '99 |
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| • | "a husky-voiced heavy smoker", Night & Day supplement, Mail on Sunday (UK), Aug. 27, '00 |
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| • | review of The Tempest at Shakespeare's Globe: "a voice which time and cigarettes have turned huskily androgynous", website, '00
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| • | "lighting up one of a succession of cigarettes", Slate, Jan. 18, '01
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| • | "Nicotine addict Vanessa Redgrave has blamed the French for tempting her into a lifelong smoking habit...Her ciggie craving was influenced by fashionable French novelist Francoise Sagan... She says: 'I'm afraid I'm addicted to tobacco and I have to place the blame on Francoise Sagan...I wanted to know what the famous French had for breakfast and read that Françoise Sagan always smoked Gauloises and had a cup of coffee. Immediately, I decided this was sophistication itself'...Half a million fags or so later, Vanessa is still puffing away", Daily Express (UK), Mar. 19, '01 |
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| • | "hands and mouth mobile to the needs of a smoking habit, for which she apologizes", CNN.com, Apr. 23, '02
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| • | "Even her stipulation that she should not be photographed smoking is qualified. 'I'm so ashamed of my smoking,' she says. 'You can write 'she smokes non-stop'. Everybod' does. They think, 'Oh good, personal touch'. But please don't take a picture because it encourages young people.' The Independent's photographer, Jack Hill, remarks that he has just given up. She immediately offers to put her cigarette out", The Independent (UK), Dec. 16, '02
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| • | "admitted that she began smoking after reading that Françoise Sagan always smoked Gauloises and had a cup of coffee for breakfast: 'Immediately, I decided this was sophistication itself'", Daily Telegraph (UK), Sep. 25, '04
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| • | "In her modest mansion block flat in west London, she has clipped blue hyacinth perfume rings on to her lamps to disguise the smell of her chemical-free cigarettes - 'You don't mind if I smoke?' It's more of an instruction than a question", Daily Telegraph (UK), Feb. 14, '05 |
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| • | "In her modest mansion block flat in west London, she has clipped blue hyacinth perfume rings on to her lamps to disguise the smell of her chemical-free cigarettes...'You don't mind if I smoke?' It's more of an instruction than a question", The Standard (Hong Kong), Mar. 19-20, '05
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| • | "Vanessa Redgrave is sitting in a restaurant in the Watergate, cigarette lighter in hand ... 'I'm playing a queen who has seen her entire family, all the men, killed, in front of her eyes,' she says, a cigarette at the ready ... She takes a puff of her cigarette", Washington Post, May 23, '05 |
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| • | "cigarette lighter in hand... a cigarette at the ready... takes a puff of her cigarette", Washington Post, May 23, '05
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| • | "chain-smoking on the Kennedy Center lanai...lighting cigarette after Natural American Spirit cigarette", Village Voice, Jun. 10, '05
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| • | "her constant companion is a pack of cigarettes... a nicotine-tinged chuckle", Radio Times (UK), Oct. 1-7, '05 |
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| • | "we spend some time sorting out where we want to sit and lighting our cigarettes (she smokes almost as much as I do)", The Observer (UK), Mar. 19, '06
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| • | "is standing in the damp chill of a New York City street smoking a cigarette", Newsweek, Mar. 26, '07
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| • | "During one of the [60 Minutes'] breaks, Redgrave stopped to smoke a cigarette. [Mike] Wallace questions her about it: 'Why you, damn fool?' 'Cause I'm an addict, that's why,' she replies, laughing. 'But I try to cut it out. And I don't when I'm around places.' 'How much do you smoke?' Wallace asks. 'That's my business. I smoke a lot,' Redgrave says. 'But I cut down when I'm working. So it's my problem. Big problem.'", CBS News 60 Minutes, Jun. 3, '07
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| • | "puffed on a cigarette", Daily Mail (UK), Mar. 20, '09
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| • | "her languid smoker's tones", Daily Telegraph (UK), Feb. 22, '10
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| • | "[In 1966] She was excited and smoked a great deal while she talked - the way young girls used to smoke when trying to impress grown-ups with their sophistication - not always finishing the cigarette", Daily Mail (UK), Feb. 27, '10
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| • | "While the photographer sets up, we sip espresso at her kitchen table. Redgrave lights up. 'Oh, write about it if you want. But it sets a bad example, and I hate being a bad example. My doctor will be horrified.' Her chosen brand is unexpected: American Spirit. 'I'm an absolute addict. I only started smoking because I read a newspaper article when I was 24 in which Françoise Sagan was asked what she had for breakfast. What did she have?' Redgrave modulates effortlessly into a husky, sexy voice. 'A cup of black of coffee and a Gauloise.' Fifty years on, Redgrave is still having that Sagan breakfast - even though it's evening, and even though health-wise she really shouldn't.", The Guardian (UK), Sep. 10, '11
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| • | "smokes like a chimney", Kleine Zeitung (Austria), Jan. 30, '12
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