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We learned to put discipline in the haircuts by using actual geometry, actual architectural shapes and bone structure. The cut had to be perfect and layered beautifully, so that when a woman shook it, it just fell back in.
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
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Beautifully
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Bone
Learned
Fell
Perfect
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Layered
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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 sculpt a head of hair with scissors is an art form. It's in pursuit of art.
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Mary Quant is my favourite fashion designer.
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For nine years I worked to change what was hairdressing then into a geometric art form with color, perm without setting which had never been done before.
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For me the working of hair is architecture with a human element.
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You never argued with my mother. You couldn't win.
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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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I was born in 1928 and by 1931 the Depression was beginning to mount.
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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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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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A working woman could save a few shillings a week, and then every five weeks she'd come in and we'd cut her hair. She could shampoo it under the shower, swing it and dry it off or just let it dry by itself. It changed the lives of many young girls who'd never had the opportunity to be styled like that before.
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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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The essence is, what can we do next? And will it be good?
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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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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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Take good advice, make sure it is good advice, then do it your way.
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Judaism is important to me from a tribal point of view.
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