David Hockney Quotes
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I believed I was invincible.
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As soon as one project is finished I like to go straight on to something else.
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If one line about the film excites me, I try to take it forward.
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As the years go by, I've added a few pounds on, and I like it. I like it that I look a little softer.
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You don't run from the bad things in life; learn from them, because your worst is what will lead you to your best.
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I'm from New York, so I'm not a big driver.
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It was very difficult when I was trying to figure out how to have a marriage and babies and do this at the same time. There was no handbook. You were making it up as you went along.
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A child who has overcome challenges with proper emotional support will emerge stronger.
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The most fascinating person is always the one of the most winning manners; not the one of greatest physical beauty.
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The question for France and all countries is, 'Do you favour foreign Internet operators that do not pay, or do you favour national operators who pay?'
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When people refer to 'Back in the Day,' it was a Wednesday. Just a little fun fact for you.
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My dad is Scottish, and he read in the newspaper about the plight of the Scottish Freshwater Mussel, which is a real thing - like, a very real, serious conservation issue. And he's a writer, and he was going to do a film about a Glaswegian gangster, and then I stole the idea and turned it into a romantic comedy.
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I don't think any media has to feel obliged to show the cover of 'Charlie Hebdo.'
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I've committed to surfing the rest of my life.
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I grew up pretty much with nothing.
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I am very excited to be able to work more with young designers and support them.
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I'm terrified of walking into a room full of people. Sitting down at a dinner table with 15 strangers brings me out in a sweat.
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Success is so bad for everybody, period. Especially a certain kind of success, when people practically give up their identity. They forget who they are, how they are.
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When knowledge becomes rigid, it stops living.
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Andy Stasiuk was a newsman of the old school of front-page journalism - tough, knowledgeable, cynical, single-minded and fun. He covered the news as a happy warrior in an era of cutthroat editorial competition.
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It is only people who are lacking, or bad, or inferior, who have to be good at things. You have always been full and perfect, so you had nothing to make up for.
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The basic idea of 'The Venture Brothers' was taking the world of 'Jonny Quest' and jumping back into 30 years later, seeing how someone who grew up like Jonny - with that kind of space race enthusiasm and disregard for other cultures - would turn out. Dr. Venture is a boy genius who didn't grow up to be what he should have been.
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It's always been most important for me to figure out "my space" rather than trying to check out what everyone else is up to, minute by minute. Technology is making it easier to connect to other people, but maybe harder to keep connected to yourself-- and that's essential for any artist, I think.
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What I didn't know was I was deeply attracted to the big space.
