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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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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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The only thing approaching art in a movie is the script.
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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 know I was going to live for 50 years. It has come as a shock.
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I don't feel very optimistic in London.
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I was dyslexic, so I was put in the silly class at school.
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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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The best advice I ever got was that knowledge is power and to keep reading.
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Being handsome wasn't much of a burden. It worked for me.
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To get rich, you have to be making money while you're asleep.
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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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I didn't try and do fashion pictures. I tried to do portraits of girls wearing dresses.
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The only thing they can't teach you at art school is art.
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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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My first influence obviously was Picasso.
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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 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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Sometimes I still can't believe my luck.
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