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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
Jazz
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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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I was a bit of a rebel.
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From my point of view, there is a tremendous amount to be said for secular humanism.
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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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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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You never argued with my mother. You couldn't win.
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You must always do what you feel is right.
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Capri on the Amalfi Coast in Italy is my ultimate holiday destination.
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Beauty is.. The passionate and positive expression of the complete self.
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Take good advice, make sure it is good advice, then do it your way.
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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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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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I kept thinking I would be spending my life up to my elbows in shampoo.
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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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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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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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'The Pianist' is a movie I could watch over and over again.
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For me the working of hair is architecture with a human element.
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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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For nine years I worked to change what was hairdressing then into a geometric art form with color, perm without setting which had never been done before.
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