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It's not recognized by enough people as a worthy craft.
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
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England
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Take good advice, make sure it is good advice, then do it your way.
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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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To me hair dressing means shape. It's very important that the foundations should be right.
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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 came home after a year and although my profession was only hairdressing, I knew I could change it.
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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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If you don't look good, we don't look good.
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Hair is another name for sex.
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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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The essence is, what can we do next? And will it be good?
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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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