David Hockney Quotes
You can't name the inventor of the camera. The 19th-century invention was chemical: the fixative.
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This is the people's money, and we need to use it on their priorities. Increasing the pay of members of Congress is not their priority.
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I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul.
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If you're asking me where my heart and where I'm happy is, I love playing with Tom Brady. I love being coached by Bill Belichick.
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But, I couldn't live without creation gymnastics.
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Oh, it is quite possible that none of us in 'Downton' will ever again get the ratings this has had. But from a career point of view, it has opened so many doors.
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There are always two forces warring against each other within us.
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Billy Crystal knows how to make people laugh. He's got 30 years on stage... there's no telling him what's funny.
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A true leader has to have a genuine open-door policy so that his people are not afraid to approach him for any reason.
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I'm really funny now.
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The thing about literature is that, yes, there are kind of tides of fashion, you know; people come in and out of fashion; writers who are very celebrated fall into, you know, people you know stop reading them, and then it comes back again.
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I've lived a slower and less expensive life going off the grid, and I'm happier because of it.
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I think cameras ought to be everywhere the reporters are allowed to go. I think, furthermore, reporters and cameras ought to be everywhere that the Constitution says the public can go.
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Sir, my life, drab and insipid though it may seem to others, is the only life given me to live.
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Only two kind of daughters. Those who are obedient and those who follow their own mind! Only one kind of daughter can live in this house. Obedient daughter!
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Besides, I'm fairly incompetent. I can't play that fast.
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I don't have money. Monsanto has money.
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In this wide world, I don't think that there's just one person for any of us. I think we look until we find one that feels right, and oftentimes, it works out just fine.
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When I was a kid, I used to watch 'Laurel and Hardy' with my cousins all the time. I still think they're extremely funny and so surreal.
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I would imagine that most of my writing is done spontaneously. I had no intention of writing, and then I'll just walk through the house, and I'll hear this melody, and I'll turn on the tape players and go back to it later on. Some days I'll get 3-5 songs a day.
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The truth is, we haven't really figured out yet how artists are going to thrive in modern mass societies. We're all experiments.
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I got beat up sometimes in the girls' bathroom.
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There'll be another resurgence where we get back and play ball well.
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When I work, I work. I don't think about anything else. I just wanna get the work done. And I'm a perfectionist.
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You can't name the inventor of the camera. The 19th-century invention was chemical: the fixative.
