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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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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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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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 have given you the power of choice, and you only alternate Between futile speculation and unconsidered action.
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It is important to appreciate beauty, even when it is evil.
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Only when I know who I am will I know what is possible.
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History is the life of nations and of humanity. To seize and put into words, to describe directly the life of humanity or even of a single nation, appears impossible.
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Jealousy is like a hot pepper. Use it mildly, and you add spice to the relationship. Use too much of it and it can burn.
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I talk about race a lot. It's been my work ever since I came out of acting school. But it's true that in a way talking about race is a taboo. Because so many of our debates about race have to do not with race but with what we are willing to see, what we will not see and what we don't want to see.
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A book, a true book, is the writer's confessional. For, whether he would have it so or not, he is betrayed, directly or indirectly, by his characters, into presenting publicly his innermost feelings.
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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?
