Name	Cecil Beaton (Sir Cecil Walter Hardy Beaton)
Date of Birth	January 14, 1904
Birthplace	Hampstead
Star Sign	Capricorn
Died	January 18, 1980 (Aged 76)
Location of Death	Wiltshire
Occupation	Photographer
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All I want is the best of everything and there`s very little of that left.

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I have the worst ear for criticism; even when I have created a stage set I like, I always hear the woman in the back of the dress circle who says she doesn`t like blue.

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Never in the history of fashion has so little material been raised so high to reveal so much that needs to be covered so badly.

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Perhaps the world`s second-worst crime is boredom; the first is being a bore.

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San Francisco is perhaps the most European of all American cities.

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Americans have an abiding belief in their ability to control reality by purely material means... airline insurance replaces the fear of death with the comforting prospect of cash.

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Mrs Woolf`s complaint should be addressed to her creator, who made her, rather than me.

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On close inspection, this device turned out to be a funereal juke box - the result of mixing Lloyd`s of London with the principle of the chewing gum dispenser.

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More varied than any landscape was the landscape in the sky, with islands of gold and silver, peninsulas of apricot and rose against a background of many shades of turquoise and azure.

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Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.

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What is elegance? Soap and water!

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I can`t afford a whole new set of enemies.

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