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 wasn't pampered the way a Tyrone Power was.
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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No one is more keen than me to see the Hunting Act repealed, because I believe in the management of wildlife.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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We also call upon our Saudi neighbors to let us pursue a democratic path....In many cases, Yemeni tribal leaders and other prominent individuals have received far more generous aid payments from Riyadh than from the Yemeni government...Saudi interference in Yemen is also motivated by a fear that the Arab Spring...might soon reach Riyadh
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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 didn't choose solitude.
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What needs to change is the nature of advertising itself. That business hasn't really evolved since the days of Don Draper.
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About two-thirds of the face of Marx is beard, a vast solemn wooly uneventful beard that must have made all normal exercise impossible. It is not the sort of beard that happens to a man, it is a beard cultivated, cherished, and thrust patriarchally upon the world.
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Tragedy is a literary concept.
