Vidal Sassoon quotes - page 2

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. (Vidal Sassoon)
Judaism is important to me from a tribal point of view.
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I was a bit of a rebel.
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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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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 came home after a year and although my profession was only hairdressing, I knew I could change it.
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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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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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If you have a sense of style and purpose and will you don't want to compromise.
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To me hair dressing means shape. It's very important that the foundations should be right.
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Women were going back to work, they were assuming their own power. They didn't have time to sit under the dryer. (Vidal Sassoon)
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'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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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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You never argued with my mother. You couldn't win.
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If you don't look good, we don't look good.
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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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I'm a great jazz fan.
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'The Pianist' is a movie I could watch over and over again.
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