"I was all about my thoughts, my work, my inspiration. I was always in hair."
-Vidal Sassoon
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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.“
-Vidal Sassoon
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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'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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"It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself."
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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 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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