David Hockney Quotes
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Everyone can do a character the way they want to do it, unless the director tells them not to, which isn't very common. I like to do my characters, if it's not specific in the script, as myself.
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Fortunately during my career I have won more or less everything, so I need to enjoy it to have the right motivation.
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My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.
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It's interesting because I think class is a heavy, heavy part of 'Moonlight,' and I think, in a certain way, through the sum of all these parts, it's become a commentary on the black experience in America.
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I just like seeing the world, and it doesn't matter where.
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You shouldn't put your hands on a woman. Simple as that.
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In the heat of our campaigns, we have all become accustomed to a little anger and exaggeration. Yet, on the whole, our political process has served us well.
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No one is more keen than me to see the Hunting Act repealed, because I believe in the management of wildlife.
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If these men decided that they have to go in there and fight, I want them to send their own children and grandchildren. I want them to not send a bunch of strangers' kids in there to fight and die.
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That’s because you can’t hold something in your mind but a little while, said Jem. It’s different with grown folks, we-
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And as well as I dream, I reason if I want, for that's just another kind of dream.
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The more I learned about the history of religion, the more my earlier misgivings appeared justified. The doctrines that I had accepted without question as a child were indeed man-made, constructed over a long period. Science seemed to have disposed of the Creator God, and biblical scholars had proved that Jesus had never claimed to be divine.
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Of the 16 years that I have been living in Germany, I have given myself entirely to the German art world. How am I now suddenly supposed to feel myself a foreigner?
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When both parties are lying and they both know the other party's lying, it comes powerful close to being the same thing as telling the truth.
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Great artists have no country.
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Une maison est une machine-à-habiter.
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If we are to keep our democracy, there must be one commandment: Thou shalt not ration justice.
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I've never gotten cash out of a machine. I use my credit cards, so I don't need to do that.
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…Sometimes there are things that people should be afraid of." "Like the dark?" She shook her head. "No, more the absence of light.
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I think that when people who've had success from a young age go through a train-wreck cycle, it's usually because they're working on someone else's terms, so they feel the need to rebel. But when it's something you've built, you don't have that same kind of resentment or angstiness. But it's also difficult to keep those standards for yourself.
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I wasn't the most confident kid in school and college.
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I'm proud of Big K.R.I.T., I'm proud that the person that came after me shares so many similar views as mine. From him being a producer, to him being a God-fearing man - being political in a sense that he wants to see the poverty-stricken do better. He wants to be the spokesperson for them.
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You can't really discover the most interesting conflicts and problems in a subject until you've tried to write about them. At that point, one discovers discontinuities in the data, perhaps, or in one's own thinking; then the act of writing forces you to work harder to resolve these contradictions.
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Tragedy is a literary concept.
