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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."
"Capri on the Amalfi Coast in Italy is my ultimate holiday destination."
"If you just do something, then you're a five-year wonder and, goodbye, you're gone. But if people feel it's worthwhile, not only do they copy but they want to learn how to do it To me, that's what it's all about. 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."
"My mother had a premonition and she felt that hairdressing would be very very good for me."
"From my point of view, there is a tremendous amount to be said for secular humanism."
"Beauty is.. The passionate and positive expression of the complete self."
"When the doubters tell you it can't be done and all kind of tragedies will come your way, I say nonsense. If you can get to the very root of who you are and make something happen from it, my sense tells me you are going to surprise yourself."
"I think that as good architecture enhances a city, a good cut enhances the definition and expression of a face."
"To sculpt a head of hair with scissors is an art form. It's in pursuit of art."
"If you look good, we look good."
"My idea was to cut shape into the hair, to use it like fabric and take away everything that was superfluous."
"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."
"You either create something and you keep it a secret and you die with it, or you can benefit the craft."
"For me the working of hair is architecture with a human element."
"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."
"Most people have excellent necks. Now they cover them with curtains, which is kind of ridiculous. But there are some beautiful necklines that you can cut into and create wonderful backs, as well as bone structure for the face."
"Take good advice, make sure it is good advice, then do it your way."
"If you have a sense of style and purpose and will you don't want to compromise."
"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."
"You must always do what you feel is right."