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Journalists never make it clear when you are joking.

David Bailey

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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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Fortunately I didn't get educated because if I'd got educated I'd be an educated fool now.
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I know everything should be photographed. It helps me make sense of my existence.
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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 hate being so nostalgic about the Sixties.
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My friends are all megalomaniacs - from Damien Hirst to Jack Nicholson - all of them.
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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 Sixties was a time of breaking down class barriers, although I think class still exists today in some areas.
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Rockers are the nicest people to photograph. They have no inhibitions.
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I am not responsible for all the journalists in the past that have told lies.
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Sometimes I still can't believe my luck.
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I was dyslexic, so I was put in the silly class at school.
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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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