David Hockney Quotes
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A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.
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I'm a capitalist but one who is smallist and localist, and who favours businesses where owners are still in charge.
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A world free of nuclear weapons will be safer and more prosperous.
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I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
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I just fell into the job as a fashion editor at a teen magazine. I was there for two years, and I left there as a senior fashion editor at the age of 25.
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I've matured since joining United, on and off the field.
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I tried to play rugby but was never very good.
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I can't take the theater side out of myself.
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Our idea is to serve everybody, including people with little money.
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One of the problems in the Navy is that tradition of being captain of the ship. And an awful lot of people can be retired in the Navy, get over it, get a life, and go on. But there's a lot who can't. And when they have to give up the ship, they got to be captain of something, every single day.
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There are parents who are really angry that I decided to portray people who have come into the country illegally as decent human beings.
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I have never read any Tolstoy. I felt badly about this until I read a Bill Simmons column where he confessed that he'd never seen 'The Big Lebowski.' Simmons, it should be pointed out, has seen everything. He said that everyone needs to have skipped at least one great cultural touchstone.
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I don't know if I'm a method actor.
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Being sober on a bus is, like, totally different than being drunk on a bus.
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Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.
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Memory, so complete and clear or so evasive, has to be ended, has to be put aside, as if one were leaving a chapel and bringing the prayer to an end in one's head.
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I have only recently got interested in film, and it is a strange way of working in many ways. But actually, when it is at its best, it's quite an extraordinary way of working between a director and an actor, to really explore an inner life.
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I would kill to be on 'Dexter,' and I would double kill to be on 'True Blood.' I would pay them to let me come be a vampire or a vampire victim. No joke!
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In general, I think it's an advantage politically to keep people guessing.
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Someone told me something that stuck with me: 'You have to envision your life, and then go backwards.' I've been living by that motto for a while, so I see where I need to be. Now I'm just backtracking and trying to get back up there.
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The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age.
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I try to only read light things when I'm working on my books, and in the evenings I watch a lot of mindless TV. I have to break up the 'dark,' or I wouldn't be a very happy person.
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If changing our world is playing God, it is just one more way in which God made us in His image.
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I grew up in austerity in the 1940s and 1950s.
