Dave Hickey Quotes
If I go to London, everyone wants to talk about Damien Hirst. I'm just not interested in him. Never have been.
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I had just turned 10-years-old when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and plunged America into World War II.
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I learned that we can do anything, but we can't do everything... at least not at the same time. So think of your priorities not in terms of what activities you do, but when you do them. Timing is everything.
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It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.
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I didn't intend to introduce food so early, but she became very interested at about 5 months, and I just gave her whatever sort of nutrient-rich food I had. Her first food was smoked trout.
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It took years for me to figure out what my body needs and that what works for my friends doesn't necessarily work for me. Doing yoga five times a week has transformed my body.
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I think that most of the children's writers live in the world that they've created, and their children are kind of phantoms that wander around the edge of it in the world, but actually the children's writers are the children.
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I am a contrarian.
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Filipinos want beauty. I have to look beautiful so that the poor Filipinos will have a star to look at from their slums.
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How do Ferrari know what I'm doing next year when I don't know what I'm doing next week?
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The first time I ever got paid to play was 1/18/99, Fire Hall in Bordentown, New Jersey. Played first on the bill - we got paid $20!
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After graduation, I wanted to work for 'Sassy', which I loved, but it had folded. So I wound up at 'Seventeen' for three years on staff and two as a contributor, and I wrote these great stories that nobody ever believes 'Seventeen' does. Serious stories for teens about social justice issues - gun control, migrant farm workers.
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I've spent the past month in Washington, D.C., and it is terrific to be back in America.
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The Japanese have different words for love. To them, it's plain weird that we love spaghetti and love our children and love our lovers, all with the same word, when surely the thing being described as love is radically different in each case.
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I shot a movie with Nicole Kidman that I got cut out of - it was crap anyways.
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When they said, 'Why is Floyd Mayweather not fighting Manny Pacquiao?' it was because Manny Pacquiao had a boss. I don't have a boss.
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The truth is, as long as nuclear weapons exist, we are not safe.
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The University of Westminster is well known for being a hotbed of extremist activity.
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I guess I was just a young, fun-loving kid! Me and my older brother was always quoting 'Coming to America,' 'Spies Like Us,' '48 Hours,' and all those movies, just having fun amongst ourselves.
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I chose to be a working wife and mother. Why should I compromise on either?
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Do nothing to merely interest, assume or attract. This is not your province. Do only that wins the people you are after in the cheapest possible way.
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My thing about creating things is that it has to do two purposes: It has to serve me creatively but also has to serve the people.
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Investments are like trains, and if you miss one, don’t worry because another one will come down the line.
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If I go to London, everyone wants to talk about Damien Hirst. I'm just not interested in him. Never have been.
