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Girls are more attractive to me than dresses.

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David Bailey
Age: 87
Born: 1938
Born: January 2
Fashion Photographer
Film Director
Photographer
David Royston Bailey
Attractive
Dresses
Girls
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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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Fortunately I didn't get educated because if I'd got educated I'd be an educated fool now.
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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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