David Hockney Quotes
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I love fashion as an art; I love fashion as costume, as a character. I don't like dictates and the phoniness of appearance.
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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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Gandhi's ideas were rooted in a wide experience of a freshly globalized world.
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You might think the thinner version of yourself is going to be the most positive or confident, but that's not how it is for me. When I'm over 200 pounds, that's when I'm the most confident version of myself.
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I doubt anyone else would have travelled as extensively as I have to meet the citizens of the country.
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Conferences at the top level are always courteous. Name-calling is left to the foreign ministers.
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I'm actually doing a show. from my shed. on the internet. but it won't be music or anything, it's more to do with drinking and smoking. it's an art piece.
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In the editing room, 20 percent of the time you're using stuff from before the actor knew the camera was rolling or you're taking a line from somewhere else and putting it in his mouth.
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Realizing full well that fine condition and confidence will not in themselves make a champion, it is my belief, however, that they are essential factors.
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I'll give you my worst nightmare. I'm dreaming that I'm onstage, the curtain goes up, and I have no idea what my lines are or what's going on. I think I should know, I kind of know, I remember rehearsing... and the audience is there waiting.
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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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The fact is that surveys which media people openly admit to show that fewer than twelve percent of their customers believe they're doing a good job, while the average profit margin in television is in the neighborhood of eighty percent.
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We didn't realize there were that many boy bands until we started touring in Europe. I don't think we were ever affected by it since a lot of the groups in Europe didn't really sing live, but we did and would perform a cappella as well.
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Life is full of happiness and tears; be strong and have faith.
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That's the thing with sci-fi and action roles. You have to play the danger as real. If you don't, you end up with egg on your face. You have to commit. You can't think about how stupid it might look without the special effects.
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It's not that we poor men are so powerful to be able to banish the devil. It's that God gives us the power.
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What I want for my fans and for the world, for anyone who feels pain, is to lean into that pain and embrace it as much as they can and begin the healing process.
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A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.
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In effect, to follow, not to force the public inclination; to give a direction, a form, a technical dress, and a specific sanction, to the general sense of the community, is the true end of legislature.
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I want to be Willy Wonka. He has a really fun spirited side but also a dark, justice-giver side.
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Making me into a role model is placing too much importance on what I see as a work in progress.
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For dear me, why abandon a belief Merely because it ceases to be true.
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I think the Enlightenment is leading us into a dark hole, really.
