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I was dyslexic, so I was put in the silly class at school.

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David Bailey
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: January 2
Fashion Photographer
Film Director
Photographer
David Royston Bailey
Dyslexic
Silly
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School

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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 hate being so nostalgic about the Sixties.
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