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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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David Bailey
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: January 2
Fashion Photographer
Film Director
Photographer
David Royston Bailey
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I am not responsible for all the journalists in the past that have told lies.
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Rockers are the nicest people to photograph. They have no inhibitions.
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My paintings are rubbish.
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Sometimes I still can't believe my luck.
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I've always been a bit flip.
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I never set out to be a photographer.
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The reason I did fashion was it was the only way to get paid to do anything creative. You couldn't support yourself as an 'artist' - I hate that word. The only way you could be 'arty' was as a fashion photographer, because it still had a certain amount of integrity involved.
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People want security in this insecure world.
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The best advice I ever got was that knowledge is power and to keep reading.
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I was dyslexic, so I was put in the silly class at school.
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Journalists never make it clear when you are joking.
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In France they don't think I'm difficult.
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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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I don't feel very optimistic in London.
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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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