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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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It's not recognized by enough people as a worthy craft.
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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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Capri on the Amalfi Coast in Italy is my ultimate holiday destination.
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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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I kept thinking I would be spending my life up to my elbows in shampoo.
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I was a bit of a rebel.
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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 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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The essence is, what can we do next? And will it be good?
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It's hard to give advice. There are so many people, how do you give major advice to a group of people, it's very presumptuous.
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If you get hold of a head of hair on somebody you've never seen before, cut beautiful shapes, cut beautiful architectural angles and she walks out looking so different - I think that's masterful.
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You must always do what you feel is right.
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My greatest regret is selling my company.
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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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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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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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Everything about morality and obligations I owe to football.
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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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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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