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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'm not really one for regrets.
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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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I hate men who are in touch with their feminine side.
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A positive attitude can really make dreams come true - it did 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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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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Girls are more attractive to me than dresses.
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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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It is a sign of a dull nature to occupy oneself deeply in matters that concern the body for instance, to be over much occupied about exercise, about eating and drinking, about easing oneself, about sexual intercourse.
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People want security in this insecure world.
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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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I know everything should be photographed. It helps me make sense of my existence.
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I always go for simplicity.
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The skull is nature's sculpture.
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I hate being so nostalgic about the Sixties.
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I never set out to be a photographer.
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I've been used by women all my life, fortunately.
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The only thing they can't teach you at art school is art.
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My paintings are rubbish.
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Being dyslexic, I was told that I was an idiot all the time.
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