David Hockney Quotes
I think Picasso was, without doubt, the greatest portraitist of the 20th century, if not any other century.
Quotes to Explore
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'Trapped In The Closet' lives in a place on the earth on its own. It pays its own rent, it's its own landlord, it owns the building, it's everything. And it's so separate from what R. Kelly does; that's the great thing about it.
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My youth held little forecast of a career in biomedical research. I was born on February 22, 1936, in York, Pennsylvania, and spent my childhood in a rural area on the west bank of the Susquehanna River.
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My brothers and I love playing outside and climbing trees. We really love sports, too - I think football's probably my favorite.
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Television is democracy at its ugliest.
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The idea of modernity is beginning to lose its vitality. It is losing it because modernity is no longer a critical attitude but an accepted, codified convention.
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Discipline is not a nasty word.
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The foundations and the intent of the Affordable Care Act are laudable. The way it's being implemented is a disaster.
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'Power' is a very special film for me and is one of the finest films of my career. I have played a character that I have never done before. My role has a lot of comedy.
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What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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If it's nice out, I swim pretty much every day for about half an hour. I have a great pool; it's very private and not too many people use it.
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I realized I didn't want to be a photographer. I gave it up, but I still worked that job in the restaurant and I found myself constantly hanging out in the kitchen.
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What happens in the media is the cult of personality. The brands who have been forced to cut their staff have been forced to take on the brands of journalists.
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Thirty years ago dinner theatre used to be much more of a going concern than it is now.
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I wanted to get into films, and my parents were against it. I convinced my mom, and finally she convinced my dad. My dad then felt, who best to launch his son than him? So he launched me, and here I am.
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It's hard for me to believe someone could harm a child.
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Being a writer - even a best-selling one - is usually not anywhere near as public as being a movie star, at least not when I'm out in 'real life' like this. Not that I don't use what fame I have, every chance I get, to help sell more books.
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It's very easy for a church just to slide along from week to week, taking it for granted that we do our services like this and that, and we celebrate the sacraments like this and that.
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My wife and I love to read. We're going to have to move out to make room for the books! And we have our dogs.
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Life was so easy before I became an actor. I could talk to anyone, and no one bothered. I keep thinking to myself, 'Should I not be myself,' but I won't do that.
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You must engage at the level of people's higher order values, and in doing so, you can engage them in a meaningful way on a large number of issues.
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Where there is great love there are always miracles.
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I would never complain about 'One Day' taking off, but it made me painfully self-conscious for a long time.
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A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
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I think Picasso was, without doubt, the greatest portraitist of the 20th century, if not any other century.
