David Bailey Quotes
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In New York, everyone's desperate for success, desperate for money and desperate to be accepted, but in London they're more laid back about things like that.
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All my ex-girlfriends or wives are all kind of great friends and I've never understood somebody who can live with somebody for five or six years and then not like them.
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My first influence obviously was Picasso.
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A positive attitude can really make dreams come true - it did for me.
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I'm not political and I don't judge.
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I think about death all the time. I know there's nothing out there, but I'm curious. There's a 300 billion-to-one chance that there might be an energy that goes somewhere else, but I doubt it.
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London changes because of money. It's real estate. If they can build some offices or expensive apartments they will, it's money that changes everything in a city.
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I didn't know a time when there wasn't a war because I spent all my time from the age of two or three to eight in a coal cellar really.
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If I have any sexist feelings they are aimed at men: I hate manly men.
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Botticelli would have made a very good fashion photographer. He did eight heads instead of seven heads in a body, which is fashion illustration.
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There's nothing wrong with being a fashion photographer, but it's a bit limited.
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I left school on my 15th birthday.
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You adapt to who you're photographing.
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I could develop a picture by the time I was 12.
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To get rich, you have to be making money while you're asleep.
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People want security in this insecure world.
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I like change. There's something Buddhist about it - continuous change is wonderful.
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I always look at people and think how I would cast them.
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I love learning new techniques.
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The only thing approaching art in a movie is the script.
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I don't really like the term 'artist.' I'm not sure what it means. It's a bit like 'love.'
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When I stop working, I go out and start working again. Most people paint a picture, or whatever they do, and go home. For me, it has to be continuous.
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Girls are more attractive to me than dresses.
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Photography is more about money now but then so are most things.