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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.

Vidal Sassoon

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Vidal Sassoon
Age: 84 †
Born: 1928
Born: January 17
Died: 2012
Died: May 9
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Fashion Designer
Hairdresser
London
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I got a telegraph from my mother who said that my step-father had had a heart attack, come home and earn a living. So I went back to England and the only thing I knew to earn any cash was through hairdressing.
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You must always do what you feel is right.
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Hair is another name for sex.
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I kept thinking I would be spending my life up to my elbows in shampoo.
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As stylists, we're groundshakers and daymakers. I was always in hair.
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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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Hair excited me. As the old ways - backcombing, rollers and rigidity - went out of the window, I started to feel the possibilities in front of my eyes.
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To me hair dressing means shape. It's very important that the foundations should be right.
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Capri on the Amalfi Coast in Italy is my ultimate holiday destination.
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It's hard to give advice. There are so many people, how do you give major advice to a group of people, it's very presumptuous.
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My mother left me for seven years in an orphanage.
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Everything about morality and obligations I owe to football.
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From my point of view, there is a tremendous amount to be said for secular humanism.
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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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When the doubters tell you it can't be done and all kind of tragedies will come your way, I say nonsense. If you can get to the very root of who you are and make something happen from it, my sense tells me you are going to surprise yourself.
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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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I'm a great jazz fan.
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Hairdressers are a wonderful breed. You work one-on-one with another human being and the object is to make them feel so much better and to look at themselves with a twinkle in their eye.
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It's not recognized by enough people as a worthy craft.
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During the late '20s my father left us. My mother was in a complete hole with no money, and we were evicted.
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