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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.

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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Always
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Architect
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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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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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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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You never argued with my mother. You couldn't win.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Realizing our society as it is, without theology dogmatically telling us how we should react to it, and being humane toward that society, that is all that we're sure of.
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I was all about my thoughts, my work, my inspiration. I was always in hair.
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I was born in 1928 and by 1931 the Depression was beginning to mount.
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From my point of view, there is a tremendous amount to be said for secular humanism.
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Mary Quant is my favourite fashion designer.
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To me hair dressing means shape. It's very important that the foundations should be right.
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My greatest regret is selling my company.
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It's okay saying sorry, but when you are drunk you say what you really feel.
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Beauty is.. The passionate and positive expression of the complete self.
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