David Hockney Quotes
Who's going to ask a painter to see a diploma? They'd say, 'Can I see your paintings?', wouldn't they?
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People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things.
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TV presenting isn't the hardest job in the world, and I've done all right financially out of it.
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I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but the living strength and majesty of the Commonwealth and Empire; of societies old and new; of lands and races different in history and origins but all, by God's Will, united in spirit and in aim.
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If someone says, 'I love that lipstick,' I will always try to answer, honestly, if I know what color it is. It's a connective tissue.
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A damn independent boy; independent as a hog on ice.
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There's definitely a whole different vibe on the set when there's like basically royalty working with us. We could have whatever we wanted. I felt like Britney Spears.
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As a woman, I'm expected to want everything to be nice and to be nice myself. A very English thing. I don't design nice buildings - I don't like them. I like architecture to have some raw, vital, earthy quality.
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The sky is a free asset in design, and nothing unnecessary should be planted that takes away the sky.
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Human rights, no matter whom they affect, are something that should matter to all of us. It's always been a part of my life.
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Global terror does not respect national boundaries.
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I read all the time that people think I'm arrogant. They say I am cocky, a bad character. I had that from a young age. But when they meet me, they say, 'That image doesn't fit you.'
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I absolutely love working with David Boreanaz, and Charisma Carpenter I completely adore – she teaches me to dance.
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Chelsea are a big club - we have to win titles and to qualify for the Champions League. There's a lot to do, but we'll try to do it all.
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Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
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As long as my body is in shape, my mind is working at its full capacity.
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Earlier, looking lighter or slimmer never mattered to me. Frankly, I didn't care. I had more important things to do. But when I figured that it's not that hard, and I have the time, passion and patience to take it up, I jumped onto the health-wagon. I started working out.
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You can write 16 plays and not make as much money as you did doing one movie.
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Survival was my only hope, success my only revenge.
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I find that putting my makeup on and playing with different looks is really relaxing for me before the show.
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I love factoids. It's hard for me to keep those out. It just takes realizing that it's stopping the character. Part of it is the decision to keep things where you want to train the spotlight. For me, it's the personal side. I always ask, How does the person inside the character relate to this?
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I couldn't go anywhere unless there was a security guard with me. That spoiled my life. It was like being in captivity. Those days are gone, and I don't ever want to see that happen to me again. Now I can wander around the streets of Los Angeles on my own. I like it that way.
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You can't be all things to all people.
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Over the years, I began to understand that there were a lot of people out there reading physics in popular literature that they could not understand - not because it was too advanced, but because it wasn't advanced enough.
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Who's going to ask a painter to see a diploma? They'd say, 'Can I see your paintings?', wouldn't they?
