David Hockney Quotes

I mean if you draw you like drawing, it's er, an activity you do all the time actually.

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• In order that people who suffer from depression seek treatment without a second thought, the stigmas must further fall until we reach a point in time when that person with leukemia and that person with depression both receive the same level of sympathy and the same level of rigorous treatment. Both people deserve it.

  

  Gayle Forman
  • People
  • Time
  • Fall

• Middle school was probably my hardest time. I was trying to fit in for so long, until about junior year of high school when I realized that trying to fit into this one image of perfection was never going to make me happy.

  

  Maiara Walsh
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  • Long
  • Trying

• Mickey Mouse popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to Hollywood at a time when business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at lowest ebb and disaster seemed right around the corner.

  

  Walt Disney
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  • Mind
  • Business

• When things happen - you ask yourself why today, why not tomorrow, why not yesterday? That's the most amazing thing about time.

  

  Ozwald Boateng
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  • Today

• First time I walked out on the Opry stage, Vince Gill was there. He kind of 'daddied' me through the whole thing. My knees were knocking. I walked out there, and I was literally shaking. They say it's the spirits or the ghosts. And out of respect for that whole establishment, I was really really nervous.

  

  Randy Houser
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  • Spirits

• I aim to direct as much as I act at some point in time.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
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• When I'm auditioning for something, if it's not me, I really hope the part doesn't go to me. You know what I mean? I don't want to be at the wrong place at the wrong time. If it's me, wonderful. If it's not me, there's space for all of us.

  

  Rachel Keller
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  • Hope
  • Space

• What I learned from boxing and what everyone can take in real life is to follow directions, follow order. Don't give nobody a hard time.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
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  • Time
  • Real

• I tell inmates all the time, 'Don't complain about your grind. Do your time.'

  

  O. J. Simpson
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  • Complain

• One of the hardest things for me to do is watch myself. The first time I see it, I am obsessed with my left ear or my right ear or some other physical attribute, or the fact that I'm 60 or whatever shallow ego thought is running through my head. I'm just destroyed that I'm not Cary Grant or whatever.

  

  Ted Danson
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  • Running
  • Ego

• If we had a party every time someone died on 'The Following,' we'd never get anything done.

  

  Valorie Curry
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• I think a first-time director always has to convince a lot of people that they're ready to do it.

  

  Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
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• The fashion industry has done itself in by neglecting the 60- to 80-year-old market. They have the time and the economic resources. They want to go shopping.

  

  Iris Apfel
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• I had spent time in New York, where I loved the idea that theater could be done up in tiny little rooms rather than for lots of money on a big stage, and be tied to ordinary life.

  

  Garry Hynes
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• As a young physician in the mid-'80s, caring for people who had contracted H.I.V., I lost two of my patients to suicide at a time when the virus was doing very little harm to them. I have always thought of them as having been killed by a metaphor, by the burden of secrecy and shame associated with the disease.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • People
  • Time
  • Lost

• Everyone gets a raise when they do well. No one asked me what I got for my initial films. There was a time I got paid Rs. 6 lakh. I charge what producers are willing to pay me.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
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  • Pay
  • Well

• In Japan, full-time homemakers have no economic power of their own, and they socially lead a faceless, anonymous existence.

  

  Natsuo Kirino
  • Time
  • Power
  • Existence

• Communications devices were always used to effect change, to effect revolution. Telephone, telegraph - these all seemed like very big enhancements at the time.

  

  Gary Shteyngart
  • Time
  • Change
  • Revolution

• Throughout my work with family and child support organizations, one thing that has stood out to me time and again is that getting early support for a child who is struggling to cope is the best possible thing we can do to help our children as they grow up.

  

  Kate Middleton
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• All my books take a long time to research. I spend several months researching before I start writing, and in the middle of writing I often have to stop and look up stuff. At my local library, I am one of the best customers! The research takes several months.

  

  Linda Sue Park
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  • Time
  • Long

• I think I may not be able to retire.

  

  Tadashi Yanai
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  • Think
  • Retire

• When I go to Batman movies, I always think, 'Man, I would like to be a bad guy in a Batman movie.' especially as they got darker when they go to the Christian Bale era.

  

  Denis Leary
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  • Guy

• Perhaps they thought I was on a fact-finding mission, never for one moment thinking that a man of my age and build could be suffering from bulimia nervosa, but that's what the consultant said I had.

  

  John Prescott
  • Thinking
  • Age
  • Suffering

• I mean if you draw you like drawing, it's er, an activity you do all the time actually.

  

  David Hockney
  • Time
  • Drawing