David Hockney Quotes
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Anything goes. You always find interesting things that way.
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Every generation witnesses atrocities. People in power try to fulfill prophecy.
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I woke up this morning, and I still don't believe I won the Daytona 500.
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I've always said if what I'm going to create doesn't look good on everybody, I'm not going to do it.
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No one is good but God alone. What is good is therefore divine, what is divine is therefore good.
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Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.
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I got a horse when I was eight or 10 years old. And dad used to take me to the rodeo back home. I got into it big time.
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For the next approximately three years, I have got Nathan to take care of. I know that once he graduates from high school, he will be off doing whatever it is he is going to be doing - probably playing ice hockey.
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I dislike Allegory - the conscious and intentional allegory - yet any attempt to explain the purport of myth or fairytale must use allegorical language.
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The Proclamation does not, indeed, mark out exactly the course I should myself prefer. But I am ready to take it just as it is written, and to stand by it with all my heart.
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I think, for an actor, the whole world is a place of work because if you focus on characters and on stories, they are everywhere, so yeah, I feel very privileged to have had this great opportunities in the international cinema and especially in the American cinema.
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I'm not an autobiographical writer, but I am a writer who deals with human emotion on all levels.
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Envy blinds men and makes it impossible for them to think clearly.
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Lyrics can be important, but ultimately, what pulls people in on a song is melody and the tracks and the way music feels.
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It wasn't until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say, 'I don't know.'
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I think some people are good at being alone, and some people aren't, and as a child, I really liked it.
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My mum was born in the former Czechoslovakia, and even though my grandparents weren't wealthy, they were aristocrats in their time.
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Don't get me wrong: I love a massive show with dancers and the works, and I love Zumba! But I just want there to be more people who just sing.
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Success is carved out of a hard tree. It doesn't just happen. It's people who stick to it that succeed.
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If you're a reporter, the easiest thing in the world is to get a story. The hardest thing is to verify. The old sins were about getting something wrong, that was a cardinal sin. The new sin is to be boring.
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I'm the best player in the NBA.
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You can't do a machine without knowing something about how it's going to work. As for the romantics, the costumes bored me and I don't enjoy doing period clothes.
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I paint what I like, when I like and where I like.
