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My greatest regret is selling my company.

I came home after a year and although my profession was only hairdressing, I knew I could change it.

From my point of view, there is a tremendous amount to be said for secular humanism.

To me hair dressing means shape. It's very important that the foundations should be right.

You either create something and you keep it a secret and you die with it, or you can benefit the craft.

My mother left me for seven years in an orphanage.

Bring out the eyes.

It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.

Capri on the Amalfi Coast in Italy is my ultimate holiday destination.

I think that as good architecture enhances a city, a good cut enhances the definition and expression of a face.

For me the working of hair is architecture with a human element.

Women were going back to work, they were assuming their own power. They didn't have time to sit under the dryer.

My mother had a premonition and she felt that hairdressing would be very very good for me.

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.

It's okay saying sorry, but when you are drunk you say what you really feel.

Hairdressing in general hasn't been given the kudos it deserves. It's not recognised by enough people as a worthy craft.

'The Pianist' is a movie I could watch over and over again.

My idea was to cut shape into the hair, to use it like fabric and take away everything that was superfluous.

When I was about 10 I ran away to see my father. He couldn't have cared less. He just took me back as soon as he could.

The essence is, what can we do next? And will it be good?

I was a bit of a rebel.

I was born in 1928 and by 1931 the Depression was beginning to mount.

I kept thinking I would be spending my life up to my elbows in shampoo.

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.

Mary Quant is my favourite fashion designer.

I'm a great jazz fan.

Take good advice, make sure it is good advice, then do it your way.

You must always do what you feel is right.

As stylists, we're groundshakers and daymakers. I was always in hair.

If you don't look good, we don't look good.

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.'

If you have a sense of style and purpose and will you don't want to compromise.

Beauty is.. The passionate and positive expression of the complete self.

I just consider being one of the luckiest people in the sense that creativity came to me and it flowed.

The only place where success comes before work is in a dictionary.

I don't sort of sit in a chair and pompously feel proud of myself about all the things we might have accomplished.

I was all about my thoughts, my work, my inspiration. I was always in hair.

During the late '20s my father left us. My mother was in a complete hole with no money, and we were evicted.

You never argued with my mother. You couldn't win.

Judaism is important to me from a tribal point of view.