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Like most ghetto kids I knew it was important to be 'somebody' so I became a good soccer player, because excelling at a sport seemed to make you special.
Vidal Sassoon
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Vidal Sassoon
Age: 84 †
Born: 1928
Born: January 17
Died: 2012
Died: May 9
Autobiographer
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Hairdresser
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If you have a sense of style and purpose and will you don't want to compromise.
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Take good advice, make sure it is good advice, then do it your way.
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I don't sort of sit in a chair and pompously feel proud of myself about all the things we might have accomplished.
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You either create something and you keep it a secret and you die with it, or you can benefit the craft.
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So I was shampooing at 14. But I've always thought that had I the opportunity for an education, I would have been an architect. There's no question about it.
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I think that as good architecture enhances a city, a good cut enhances the definition and expression of a face.
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I was all about my thoughts, my work, my inspiration. I was always in hair.
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If someone were to ask me, 'What's the number one thing, in essence, that you left behind?'... it was the teaching of others, so that they could take my work and take it further.
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I was born in 1928 and by 1931 the Depression was beginning to mount.
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My idea was to cut shape into the hair, to use it like fabric and take away everything that was superfluous.
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From my point of view, there is a tremendous amount to be said for secular humanism.
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I'll never forget one morning I walked in and I had a hell of a bruise - it had been a difficult night the night before - and a client said to me, 'Good God, Vidal, what happened to your face?' And I said, 'Oh, nothing, madam, I just fell over a hairpin.'
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If you get hold of a head of hair on somebody you've never seen before, cut beautiful shapes, cut beautiful architectural angles and she walks out looking so different - I think that's masterful.
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When I was about 10 I ran away to see my father. He couldn't have cared less. He just took me back as soon as he could.
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I came home after a year and although my profession was only hairdressing, I knew I could change it.
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To sculpt a head of hair with scissors is an art form. It's in pursuit of art.
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