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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: 87
Born: 1938
Born: January 2
Fashion Photographer
Film Director
Photographer
David Royston Bailey
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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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I was dyslexic, so I was put in the silly class at school.
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I hate men who are in touch with their feminine side.
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The only thing approaching art in a movie is the script.
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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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The skull is nature's sculpture.
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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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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 didn't try and do fashion pictures. I tried to do portraits of girls wearing dresses.
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It's only a few nutcases who do art for themselves, like Van Gogh.
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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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In '73 I photographed the cannibals in New Guinea. They treated me OK but they didn't make you feel relaxed... I managed to escape unscathed though, I'm pretty good at that.
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The trouble with people like Tony Blair is they get confused, they think intelligence is education when they're two different things.
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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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Sometimes I still can't believe my luck.
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Being dyslexic, I was told that I was an idiot all the time.
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I've been used by women all my life, fortunately.
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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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People want security in this insecure world.
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