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For me the working of hair is architecture with a human element.

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
Human
Humans
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Architecture
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Hair
Working

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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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There were so many pretty girls coming into the salon as clients, and others working in the salon. And I thought, 'Hmm. This is rather nice.'
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I just consider being one of the luckiest people in the sense that creativity came to me and it flowed.
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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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Most people have excellent necks. Now they cover them with curtains, which is kind of ridiculous. But there are some beautiful necklines that you can cut into and create wonderful backs, as well as bone structure for the face.
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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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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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Beauty is.. The passionate and positive expression of the complete self.
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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 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 think that as good architecture enhances a city, a good cut enhances the definition and expression of a face.
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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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If you don't look good, we don't look good.
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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.
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Take good advice, make sure it is good advice, then do it your way.
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Hair is another name for sex.
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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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It's okay saying sorry, but when you are drunk you say what you really feel.
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I was all about my thoughts, my work, my inspiration. I was always in hair.
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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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