David Hockney Quotes
People tell me they open my e-mails first, because they aren't demands and you don't need to reply. They're simply for pleasure.
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I never made a mistake in grammar but one in my life and as soon as I done it I seen it.
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At night, I love dressing up. I love putting on an outfit.
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For the year after I left government service, I worked as a consultant to the Republican National Committee because the lawyers advised that was the proper way for me to comply with ethics regulations and continue to advise the President.
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I just wanted to rollerblade at Union Square.
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In 1942, everyone was ready to go and fight for the good guys. It was so simple.
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I think the process is one of using the camera and sound in the way a detective uses a magnifying glass: to find the clues. They're discovery devices, not performance devices - you're watching things the way a cat does. You're not judging. You're there to witness something.
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Good God, do you mean to say this place is a club?
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How can I wage political battle against a widow who does not mean anyone any harm except only the president himself?
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If I can help a kid feel more comfortable in their skin because they're struggling with maybe the things I struggled with in high school, that's great.
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Complex tasks are often better handled in the back of our mind, and that's often true of creative tasks - when you have something complex to deal with in writing or research or responding to an email. I'll start working, put it aside, and sometimes I'll wake up the next morning with a solution, or I'll find one when I exercise.
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I can't cook to save my life.
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There is no requirement that police stop a person who enters a police station and states that he wishes to confess a crime or a person who calls the police to offer a confession because volunteered statements of any kind are not barred by the 5th Amendment.
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Speak your mind, even if your voice shakes.
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It's pretty intense writing about my own life, my own struggles.
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Give me a couple of years, and I'll make that actress an overnight success.
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I believe it's important that we use names of endearment that reflect a special feeling for the individual involved.
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Certainly we know from our own experience how very difficult it is when you've lost an election that perhaps a lot of people were expecting you to win.
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One of the things I love about music is live performance.
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You don't want to treat any one person as oracular.
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The reasons you have for doing a movie will vary with the way your life is going. There was a time when a made a some movies because I felt I needed to work. And I didn't think about the material as much. But sometimes I've thought about the material a lot and thought I was doing the right thing, and it didn't work out.
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I'm working on my new album right now. Hopefully to get that out at the top of 2005, January 2005.
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If DreamWorks and Disney need that name to sell the cartoon and get people in the seats, that's what they need. It's not fair, but there's plenty of other work for us to do.
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When people used to call me a political writer, it was kind of confusing because I was always much more interested in the social end of things which hinges on the political, but it isn't really part of it.
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People tell me they open my e-mails first, because they aren't demands and you don't need to reply. They're simply for pleasure.
