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I just consider being one of the luckiest people in the sense that creativity came to me and it flowed.

Vidal Sassoon

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Vidal Sassoon
Age: 84 †
Born: 1928
Born: January 17
Died: 2012
Died: May 9
Autobiographer
Businessperson
Fashion Designer
Hairdresser
London
England
Luckiest
Consider
Creativity
Came
Sense
People
Flowed

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