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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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Girls are more attractive to me than dresses.
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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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In France they don't think I'm difficult.
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I had a terrible time with feminists in the Seventies. They hated me, those women. I think they hated everything.
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I don't feel very optimistic in London.
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I never set out to be a photographer.
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It's only a few nutcases who do art for themselves, like Van Gogh.
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The only thing approaching art in a movie is the script.
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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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To get rich, you have to be making money while you're asleep.
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The only thing they can't teach you at art school is art.
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I don't think my work does reflect my nationality - I don't like the idea of nationalism.
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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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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 hate being so nostalgic about the Sixties.
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I've been used by women all my life, fortunately.
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I don't see the point of photographing trees or rocks because they're there and anyone can photograph them if they're prepared to hang around and wait for the light.
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My friends are all megalomaniacs - from Damien Hirst to Jack Nicholson - all of them.
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Journalists never make it clear when you are joking.
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I am not responsible for all the journalists in the past that have told lies.
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