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 knew the profanity used up and down my street would not go over the air... So I trained myself to say 'Holy Cow' instead.
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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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We looked really hard and long at (HTX). We didn't think giving up resources for this slot was a good choice.
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No decision has been made to date. The commissioner and I continue to meet with representatives of the groups and there will be an official announcement when the decision is made.
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[Alex Hayley] wanted to show the negative aspects of the N.O.I.'s ideology, Yacub's history, and all of the ramifications of racial separatism that he felt were negative, and that Malcolm, being as charismatic as he was, a very attractive figure, nevertheless, he embodied these kind of negative traits.
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I'm never certain of a performance - my own or the other actors' - or the script or anything... But to me it seems there's only one place in the world the camera can be, and the decision usually comes immediately.
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I perform for soldiers because they are important.
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I paint what I like, when I like and where I like.
