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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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I never set out to be a photographer.
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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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I never cared for fashion much, amusing little seams and witty little pleats: it was the girls I liked.
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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 didn't know I was going to live for 50 years. It has come as a shock.
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I know everything should be photographed. It helps me make sense of my existence.
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It's only a few nutcases who do art for themselves, like Van Gogh.
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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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I hate being so nostalgic about the Sixties.
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The only thing approaching art in a movie is the script.
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Being dyslexic, I was told that I was an idiot all the time.
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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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My first influence obviously was Picasso.
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I was dyslexic, so I was put in the silly class at school.
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I don't think global warming is to do with us, I think it's a natural circle. I don't think a few Ferraris make that much difference.
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A positive attitude can really make dreams come true - it did for me.
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It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the extraordinary.
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