Dave Hickey Quotes
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I am a genius who has written poems that will survive with the best of Shakespeare, Wordsworth and Keats.
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I'm an actor who wants to do great parts, and I've been very fortunate, for a long time, to get meaty roles, and sometimes some of them are meatier than others.
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I write 'Broad City,' so I connect it to me.
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For anyone who works in front of an audience there is no thrill quite like that of feeling and hearing the evidence of the audience members' enjoyment. Laughter and applause really are powerful.
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Coming out of college with a degree in fine arts and painting isn't worth much any more.
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The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.
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Twitter should ban my mother.
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There's a lot of stress... but once you get in the car, all that goes out the window.
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I'm just someone who marvels at God.
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The French complain of everything, and always.
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I just don't tend to cook eggplant at home.
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I've always had tremendous support from my parents. I think there's a myth that gay people have lousy relationships with their parents.
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Being away from home for six months of the year and seeing your kids grow up on Skype all that time - I think I saw Molly walk for the first time on Skype. That's not good.
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In 20 years I want to look back and see a collection of crazy characters that I made - a menagerie.
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To become the best comedian, I must be well-rounded.
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He's this amazing ambassador for all superheroes. What we've made as a film not only examines that but is also an amazing adventure story. It's been an honor to work on. As a comic book fan, Superman is like the Rosetta Stone of all superheroes.
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When you make a decision to forgive it's a decision that you have to make intellectually.
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I was not really as good as I should have been.
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It's still easier to take a blow from outside than it is to be disgusted with myself for not taking a stand. I don't know how people can live and not fight back but apparently millions do. They must hate themselves.
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I prefer to put myself in an environment that's further afield and look through the eyes of someone who differs from me in age, ethnicity, gender, and/or social class. I think a little displacement makes me a sharper observer.
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[At Marc Antony's tomb:] Nothing could part us in life, but now in death we are likely to change places, you the Roman lying here in Egyptian soil, and I, helpless woman that I am, being buried in Italy.
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Oh, give us pleasure in the flowers today; And give us not to think so far away As the uncertain harvest; keep us here All simply in the springing of the year. Oh, give us pleasure in the orchard white, Like nothing else by day, like ghosts by night; And make us happy in the happy bees, The swarm dilating round the perfect trees.
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I hate all that woozy political and psychotherapeutic crap applied to books and art.
