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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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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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Knew
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Home
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Hairdressing

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My mother left me for seven years in an orphanage.
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From my point of view, there is a tremendous amount to be said for secular humanism.
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Beauty is.. The passionate and positive expression of the complete self.
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You must always do what you feel is right.
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I was all about my thoughts, my work, my inspiration. I was always in hair.
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My greatest regret is selling my company.
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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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I'll never forget one morning I walked in and I had a hell of a bruise - it had been a difficult night the night before - and a client said to me, 'Good God, Vidal, what happened to your face?' And I said, 'Oh, nothing, madam, I just fell over a hairpin.'
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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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