David Bailey Quotes
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I don't do proud.
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Rather than knowing more, I think I've got more open-minded.
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Being trendy is dangerous. I've never been trendy, which is why I've never really fallen out of favour.
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I'm not really one for regrets.
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Kate Moss is the best thing since Jean Shrimpton, really.
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You have to kind of be invisible when you photograph children, so you use a longer lens.
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I sort of fall in love with them when I'm photographing them - men and women.
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Good shoes are important. I wear English brogues in a wide fitting. They last me years.
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I'm an image-maker.
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My father was a tailor, my mother a machinist.
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I don't see the point of photographing trees or rocks because they're there and anyone can photograph them if they're prepared to hang around and wait for the light.
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My exploits are nothing now to the average person.
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It always amazes me when people ask you to do something and then tell you how to do it.
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I hate men who are in touch with their feminine side.
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Nothing wrong with retouching - nothing new about retouching.
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I had a terrible time with feminists in the Seventies. They hated me, those women. I think they hated everything.
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Being dyslexic, I was told that I was an idiot all the time.
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I don't feel very optimistic in London.
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I am mad about my wife.
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Being handsome wasn't much of a burden. It worked for me.