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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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Journalists never make it clear when you are joking.
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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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I am not responsible for all the journalists in the past that have told lies.
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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 always go for simplicity.
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To get rich, you have to be making money while you're asleep.
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It's only a few nutcases who do art for themselves, like Van Gogh.
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I never set out to be a photographer.
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I hate being so nostalgic about the Sixties.
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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 didn't try and do fashion pictures. I tried to do portraits of girls wearing dresses.
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Being handsome wasn't much of a burden. It worked for me.
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My friends are all megalomaniacs - from Damien Hirst to Jack Nicholson - all of them.
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