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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I want to get within myself and write. I really, really want to write.
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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No one is more keen than me to see the Hunting Act repealed, because I believe in the management of wildlife.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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I can move my characters through it easily, because I understand the background; I've really studied it.
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Studying design has made me a much, much more astute observer of this aspect of business. And I'm working mightily to improve my empathic skills. I've dramatically improved my ability to read facial expressions - and I'm trying to be a better, more attentive listener.
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I met Donald Trump in '85. I ran into him several times throughout the years. We knew we had this connection, but it wasn't appropriate timing. So we'd spend a lot of time on the telephone. By '88, I knew I truly loved this guy.
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Usually, those people don't even like actors and they can't wait until they get in the cutting room. They kind of break down in categories: directors who like to be surprised and some of them abhor being surprised. As far as directing, we all direct when we're acting in movies... every single one of us.
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Tragedy is a literary concept.
