David Hockney Quotes
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I've gone through stages where I hate my body so much that I won't even wear shorts and a bra in my house because if I pass a mirror, that's the end of my day.
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Black culture has been a huge influence in my life.
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I don't know the right way to retire.
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Trump is a master obfuscator. Like an octopus escaping a predator, he releases a cloud of ink when called to the carpet on one of his many lies. His strategy? Obfuscate, then reference others. 'Millions agree,' 'everyone knows,' 'many have done it.'
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Everything I've ever written, I had a very distinct vision of what I wanted it to look like. But, other directors never do it that way.
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I was thinking on the rollers today that, before a race, if I could just pick my brain up and put it on the side of the track for four minutes, it would be perfect.
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There were dragons to slay in the old days. Nixon was a good dragon.
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It used to be that the black comic figure had to have this bravado and always showed strength.
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I believe that breakfast is the most important meal of the day, if you don't have a good breakfast, then what are you going to do with the rest of your day. I get scared when I don't have a good breakfast!
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One of the greatest gifts we have is our own mistakes and somebody singing about them.
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I approached the problem of utility measurement in 1923 during a stay in Paris. There were three objects I had in view :
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He's a serious mister Shake his hand and he'll twist your arm. With Monopoly money We'll be buying the funny farm. So I'll do flips, and get paid in chips From a diamond as big as the Ritz - Then I'm calling it quits.
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One of the first courses I ever taught at Dartmouth was on the Bible as literature.
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I was always cutting dialogue out when we were rehearsing, and when I produced movies, too. I felt that people don't say things in life - they act, they do things. I always wanted my characters doing, rather than saying what they were doing - which was redundant.
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I will never have anything that is remotely technical near my bath time. I completely zone out and stare up at the ceiling. For me, it's like a form of meditation. It's a time where I can just actually turn off.
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Everything outside doesn't matter when I'm on the court; it's just me and nothing else. Family problems, school, what happened to my father, all the stress goes away.
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I've written under the radar for quite some time, and I always looked at editing as writing.
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I know I'm good enough to contend in each and every major I play.
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Mostly, I spend my time being a mother to my two children, working in my organic garden, raising masses of sweet peas, being passionately involved in conservation, recycling and solar energy.
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Triathletes can push themselves quite hard, and I have seen people collapse on a barrier or pass out on a bike.
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An actor should never be larger than the film he's in.
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Education helps you to be a well-rounded person, period. It teaches you how to take in information and data, process it, and use it for life building. Education was key in my family. You were going to college.
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Or they'll put posters up saying pizza is the biggest source of tomato sauce in the American diet.
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Of course you can still paint landscape - it's not been worn out.
