David Hockney Quotes
All film directors, even the ones using 3-D today, want you to look at what they chose.
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I was blacklisted because of this activity, so I'm not a typical anything.
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I don't mind talking about 'what might have been,' but I am not one to doubt or regret most of my decisions.
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It's funny how a chubby kid can just be having fun, and people call it entertainment!
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I've been accused of having very long ingredient lists, and I guess there's some truth in that.
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I like to come up with lots of different sounds. So the final version of a song might have been 10 completely different songs before we finally got it right.
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Between 1945 and 1965, the number of colonial people ruled by the British monarch plunged from 700 million to five million. In 1956, just three years after the coronation, the Suez canal crisis and Anthony Eden's humiliation ended all notions that Britain was a world superpower.
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So, I'm on 'Sesame Street,' walking around with all these monsters, Elmo and his buddies, a whole bunch of chickens, a whole bunch of penguins and a number four dancing about. It was just pure joy, simple, ridiculous fun, stupid joy. There's no irony. 'Sesame Street' is just a crazy great place to be.
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I feel privileged that I've been able to get anywhere, with my quote-unquote limited mainstream appeal, given my race and subject matter. Of course, I always have my masters to fall back on.
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If I buy a game on Steam and I'm running it on Windows, I can go to one of the Steam machines and already have the game. So you benefit as a developer; you benefit as a consumer in having the PC experience extended in the living room.
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Most superhero characters we see these days are from foreign countries. I would like to play a superhero that shows off Korean power.
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I think, especially in pop culture, we're brought up to think that a normal pop star is this pretty, well-kept-together girl.
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Ultravox were the blueprint for what I wanted to do, but I stumbled across them by accident.
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It takes people a while to trust you.
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One of the ugly secrets of the renewable-energy industry is that its products make no economic sense unless they are highly subsidized.
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Christmas is a huge thing in my family. We usually start decorating the day after Thanksgiving. We spend Christmas Eve with one set of grandparents, and Christmas Day with the other grandparents and our family.
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Los Angeles is a microcosm of the United States. If L.A. falls, the country falls.
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Vinyl is the real deal. I've always felt like, until you buy the vinyl record, you don't really own the album. And it's not just me or a little pet thing or some kind of retro romantic thing from the past. It is still alive.
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My finding of myself as an artist, which I think in itself helped me to find just who I am and how I want to express myself, is entirely - in conjunction, of course, with my family, particularly my mom - founded on teachers.
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When I get some time off, I like to go back to my roots in the North East. My family have been around Northumberland for five generations.
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I have to see a definitive cut of the film before I even start thinking about the music, I tell the director what my feelings are and what I would like to do. He accepts what I say or discusses it or destroys it. Eventually, we have to find a compromise.
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There has to be room for people to make mistakes and lead their own lives.
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Today's China is not in the least shut out from the rest of the world. Trends come to us from all over the world. And the Internet is really developed in China. We get news from all over the world.
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It is a question of building which is at the root of the social unrest of today: architecture or revolution.
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All film directors, even the ones using 3-D today, want you to look at what they chose.
