David Hockney Quotes
I think cubism has not fully been developed. It is treated like a style, pigeonholed and that's it.
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I did not work hard in order to achieve more and to remain at the level of the player that I am and that I can be.
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It is easy to remove the mind from harping on the lost illusion of immortality. The disciplined intellect fears nothing and craves no sugar-plum at the day's end, but is content to accept life and serve society as best it may.
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This was just one of many times God has spared me.
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My life is proof that I don't need you to do what I do. If there's no one to see it, I'll watch it.
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There's nothing unnatural in creation.
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Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view, That stand upon the threshold of the new.
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I grew up in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, and reading was a big part of my life - I'd get through several books a week.
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I like strong female characters. I try to write them as role models for young girls.
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I am not a person to be pressured - by anybody or any nation.
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Living in New York, for me at least, just keeps it very real and keeps my feet firmly planted on the ground.
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I never try to follow a trend or fashion.
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The three great problems of this century; the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness.
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None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.
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I think there's nothing more amazing than helping people every day.
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I've got four kids - I unblock a toilet every day.
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Part of what made 'The Bling Ring' such a fun, freeing experience was that we got to wear these really over-the-top clothes we'd never pick in real life - like for the nightclub scenes, we'd have on these really short, really tight dresses. But you know what - I actually learned how to walk in heels on that set!
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All my fiction starts from a feeling of unique perception, the pressure of a secret, a story that needs to be told.
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I was, by the way - I'm an Essex lad, born and raised in Essex in the U.K.
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He knew that the whole mystery of beauty can never be comprehended by the crowd, and that while clearness is a virtue of style, perfect explicitness is not a necessary virtue.
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I could have pigeonholed us and wrote a whole record like 'Pumped Up Kicks,' and we would have been this breezy, nostalgic West Coast Beach Boys recreation band. That's not the type of writer I am. Once I try one style, I move on.
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Everyone has their style and your style explains a lot about who you are - you feel me? I've had style since childhood, so I like to dress how I feel. But maybe I get carried away by some trends.
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Judicial abuse occurs when judges substitute their own political views for the law.
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I figure I'm still good for painting until 95 or thereabouts.
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I think cubism has not fully been developed. It is treated like a style, pigeonholed and that's it.
