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Take good advice, make sure it is good advice, then do it your way.

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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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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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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Mary Quant is my favourite fashion designer.
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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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Hairdressing in general hasn't been given the kudos it deserves. It's not recognised by enough people as a worthy craft.
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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 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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From my point of view, there is a tremendous amount to be said for secular humanism.
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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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You never argued with my mother. You couldn't win.
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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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I don't sort of sit in a chair and pompously feel proud of myself about all the things we might have accomplished.
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I was all about my thoughts, my work, my inspiration. I was always in hair.
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'The Pianist' is a movie I could watch over and over again.
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I was a bit of a rebel.
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Everything about morality and obligations I owe to football.
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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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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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Judaism is important to me from a tribal point of view.
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