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I've been used by women all my life, fortunately.

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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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Women

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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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It's only a few nutcases who do art for themselves, like Van Gogh.
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Actors are hard to photograph because they never want to reveal who they are. You don't know if you're getting a character from a Chekhov play or a Polanski film. It depends what mood they're in.
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It is a sign of a dull nature to occupy oneself deeply in matters that concern the body for instance, to be over much occupied about exercise, about eating and drinking, about easing oneself, about sexual intercourse.
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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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Fortunately I didn't get educated because if I'd got educated I'd be an educated fool now.
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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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A positive attitude can really make dreams come true - it did for me.
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I hate being so nostalgic about the Sixties.
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I'm never shocked, I'm not the shockable type!
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The only thing they can't teach you at art school is art.
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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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I am not responsible for all the journalists in the past that have told lies.
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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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To get rich, you have to be making money while you're asleep.
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The skull is nature's sculpture.
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You have to kind of be invisible when you photograph children, so you use a longer lens.
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I don't think global warming is to do with us, I think it's a natural circle. I don't think a few Ferraris make that much difference.
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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 always go for simplicity.
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