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The essence is, what can we do next? And will it be good?

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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
Essence
Next
Good

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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 either create something and you keep it a secret and you die with it, or you can benefit the craft.
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Take good advice, make sure it is good advice, then do it your way.
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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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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.
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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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I came home after a year and although my profession was only hairdressing, I knew I could change it.
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My mother left me for seven years in an orphanage.
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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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If you have a sense of style and purpose and will you don't want to compromise.
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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 think that as good architecture enhances a city, a good cut enhances the definition and expression of a face.
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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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My mother had a premonition and she felt that hairdressing would be very very good for me.
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Hair is another name for sex.
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You must always do what you feel is right.
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Beauty is.. The passionate and positive expression of the complete self.
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To me hair dressing means shape. It's very important that the foundations should be right.
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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 was born in 1928 and by 1931 the Depression was beginning to mount.
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