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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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David Bailey
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: January 2
Fashion Photographer
Film Director
Photographer
David Royston Bailey
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Being handsome wasn't much of a burden. It worked for me.
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I was dyslexic, so I was put in the silly class at school.
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My paintings are rubbish.
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The only thing approaching art in a movie is the script.
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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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My friends are all megalomaniacs - from Damien Hirst to Jack Nicholson - all of them.
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I never set out to be a photographer.
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I've always been a bit flip.
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Being dyslexic, I was told that I was an idiot all the time.
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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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The best advice I ever got was that knowledge is power and to keep reading.
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