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My mother left me for seven years in an orphanage.
Vidal Sassoon
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Vidal Sassoon
Age: 84 †
Born: 1928
Born: January 17
Died: 2012
Died: May 9
Autobiographer
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Fashion Designer
Hairdresser
London
England
Orphanage
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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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If you look good, we look good.
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To sculpt a head of hair with scissors is an art form. It's in pursuit of art.
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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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Hair is another name for sex.
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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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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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Mary Quant is my favourite fashion designer.
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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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Capri on the Amalfi Coast in Italy is my ultimate holiday destination.
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If you don't look good, we don't look good.
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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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I came home after a year and although my profession was only hairdressing, I knew I could change it.
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I was all about my thoughts, my work, my inspiration. I was always in hair.
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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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I think that as good architecture enhances a city, a good cut enhances the definition and expression of a face.
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I kept thinking I would be spending my life up to my elbows in shampoo.
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Everything about morality and obligations I owe to football.
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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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