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 like thinking about the fragility of the human flesh and our bodies - our decay and eventual death.
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I would prefer to abandon the terminology of the past. 'Superpower' is something which we used during the cold war time. Why use it now?
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Yeah, baggy jeans are done. Nobody wants to wear big, baggy jeans. Baggy jeans are completely over with.
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I've been in silly movies and romantic movies and historic movies.
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Women in leadership roles can help restore balance and wholeness to our communities.
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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?
