"My greatest regret is selling my company."
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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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"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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"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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"You never argued with my mother. You couldn't win."
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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 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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"So I was shampooing at 14. But I've always thought that had I the opportunity for an education, I would have been an architect. There's no question about it."
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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'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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"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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"I was born in 1928 and by 1931 the Depression was beginning to mount."
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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 came home after a year and although my profession was only hairdressing, I knew I could change it."
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