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People want security in this insecure world.

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David Bailey
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: January 2
Fashion Photographer
Film Director
Photographer
David Royston Bailey
Insecure
Security
World
People

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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 never cared for fashion much, amusing little seams and witty little pleats: it was the girls I liked.
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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 know everything should be photographed. It helps me make sense of my existence.
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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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Sometimes I still can't believe my luck.
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I hate men who are in touch with their feminine side.
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I am not responsible for all the journalists in the past that have told lies.
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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 didn't try and do fashion pictures. I tried to do portraits of girls wearing dresses.
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I hate being so nostalgic about the Sixties.
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To get rich, you have to be making money while you're asleep.
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The best advice I ever got was that knowledge is power and to keep reading.
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Girls are more attractive to me than dresses.
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Being handsome wasn't much of a burden. It worked for me.
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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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You have to kind of be invisible when you photograph children, so you use a longer lens.
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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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It's only a few nutcases who do art for themselves, like Van Gogh.
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Rockers are the nicest people to photograph. They have no inhibitions.
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