I got a telegraph from my ...

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.
 Vidal Sassoon

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You never argued with my mother. You couldn't win.
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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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My mother had a premonition and she felt that hairdressing would be very very good for me.
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My mother left me for seven years in an orphanage.
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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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