You never argued with my mother. You couldn't win.
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Like most ghetto kids I knew it was important to be 'somebody' so I became a good soccer player, because excelling at a sport seemed to make you special.
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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Bring out the eyes.
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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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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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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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My mother had a premonition and she felt that hairdressing would be very very good for me.
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I was born in 1928 and by 1931 the Depression was beginning to mount.