David Hockney Quotes
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As I age, I become more and more happy with what I see in the mirror. At some point, that's going to stop.
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I tend to think of stories and books as being for everyone, just with an 'entry reading age' rather than an age range.
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I did successfully kick tobacco at the age of 34. I smoked for like 20 years, from 14 to 34.
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I see my fans as music lovers. I really love that. There's no age group or demographic. It's people of all ages and backgrounds. Country people and non-country people. I wanted to make music across the board.
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Middle age is when your broad mind and narrow waist begin to change places.
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But generally I am fine with a capital F; probably in extraordinary shape for a man of my age.
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Voting has proliferated in the United States, and it has reached a point where there is now almost one vote available per citizen over the age of eighteen.
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I have never planned to have babies by a certain age.
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It is enough for a poet to be the guilty conscience of his age.
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Age discrimination is illegal. But when compared with discrimination against racial minorities and women, it is a second-class civil rights issue.
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Age puzzles me. I thought it was a quiet time. My seventies were interesting and fairly serene, but my eighties are passionate. I grow more intense as I age.
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You still stand watch, O human star, burning without a flicker, perfect flame, bright and resourceful spirit. Each of your rays a great idea - O torch which passes from hand to hand, from age to age, world without end.
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I don't consider Los Angeles home anymore; ultimately, it was pretty negative, but I did spend my formative years in the Valley and all around L.A. proper. Through my teenage years and into my young adulthood, up until the age of 30, I spent a good amount of time there.
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Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, controls youth, and delights old age.
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Politics is the one field you don't age out of.
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There is no age better than another. The commitment to give of yourself and the knowledge that the time is right are what's important.
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I was writing at a really young age, but it took me a long time to be brave enough to become a published writer, or to try to become a published writer. It's a very public way to fail. And I was kind of scared, so I started out as a ghost writer, and I wrote for other series, like Disney 'Aladdin' and 'Sweet Valley' and books like that.
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Daniel Day-Lewis is one of the greatest actors of our age; he's like Olivier. He's one of those people who can take you into a place where no one else can take you.
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At the age of nineteen, on my own initiative and at my own expense, I raised an army by means of which I restored liberty to the republic, which had been oppressed by the tyranny of a faction. For which service the senate, with complimentary resolutions, enrolled me in its order...
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I don't believe in ghosts.
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Other writers definitely influence my writing. What encourages me and inspires me is when I read a good book. It makes me want to be a better writer.
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Every search has its own momentum. It is why a search makes such an excellent plot for a film or story.
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Free speech is one of our fundamental principles and it's pretty hard to speak freely when people are yelling at you when it's your turn. That would never be allowed in a classroom or in any other kind of meeting.
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In my old age, I'll be in L.A.
