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The best advice I ever got was that knowledge is power and to keep reading.

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David Bailey
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: January 2
Fashion Photographer
Film Director
Photographer
David Royston Bailey
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Reading
Knowledge
Keep
Power
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I didn't try and do fashion pictures. I tried to do portraits of girls wearing dresses.
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Being dyslexic, I was told that I was an idiot all the time.
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Actors are hard to photograph because they never want to reveal who they are. You don't know if you're getting a character from a Chekhov play or a Polanski film. It depends what mood they're in.
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I was dyslexic, so I was put in the silly class at school.
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Being handsome wasn't much of a burden. It worked for me.
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I am not responsible for all the journalists in the past that have told lies.
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My paintings are rubbish.
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In France they don't think I'm difficult.
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You have to kind of be invisible when you photograph children, so you use a longer lens.
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People want security in this insecure world.
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I never cared for fashion much, amusing little seams and witty little pleats: it was the girls I liked.
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I hate men who are in touch with their feminine side.
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I hate being so nostalgic about the Sixties.
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The Sixties was a time of breaking down class barriers, although I think class still exists today in some areas.
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My first influence obviously was Picasso.
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I don't feel very optimistic in London.
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A positive attitude can really make dreams come true - it did for me.
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The reason I did fashion was it was the only way to get paid to do anything creative. You couldn't support yourself as an 'artist' - I hate that word. The only way you could be 'arty' was as a fashion photographer, because it still had a certain amount of integrity involved.
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I always go for simplicity.
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Fortunately I didn't get educated because if I'd got educated I'd be an educated fool now.
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