Gary Hume Quotes
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I love fashion as an art; I love fashion as costume, as a character. I don't like dictates and the phoniness of appearance.
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They might in the future more than ever before engage in hunting beavers.
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Nobody is bothered about an institution more than its alumni.
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I was fortunate enough to visit a lot of beautiful places around the world. The most astonishing and memorable experiences were my trips to Africa and Australia.
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Ecuador is a country which defends the right to life.
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Any time you get two people in a room who disagree about anything, the time of day, there is a scene to be written. That's what I look for.
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I had the good fortune of having a happy, closely knit family.
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I like to give my inhibitions a bath now and then.
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For me, California is all about rest, relaxation, space.
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Information is power. But like all power, there are those who want to keep it for themselves.
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If being a woman is a factor politically, it's usually not because of a conscious bias, but because women are a novelty.
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It's so fascinating to think about how each snowflake is completely individual - there are millions and millions of them, but each one is so unique.
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People always say, 'You look like Iggy Pop.'
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I imagine that my characters have become much more complicated than when I first began, which would be normal.
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So often, when we don't have people that can be representative or symbolic of leadership and of faith, of purpose, in that absence we become bitter and resentful.
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For The Truman Show, I worked for a few weeks, do my gig, then I was done.
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The Republican Party, which John McCain led as our nominee in 2008, is going to become irrelevant if we become the party of intolerance and hate. The party founded by Abraham Lincoln was a party that fought slavery and intolerance at every level.
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Museums are not normally presenting the works on the walls as provocations to work. It's more like going to a Jacuzzi.
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Writing is for men who can think and feel, not mindless sensation seekers out of nightclubs and bars. But these are bad times. We are condemned to work with upstarts, clowns who no doubt got their training in a circus and then turned to journalism as the appropriate place to display their tricks.
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Blessed are the idiots, for they are happiest people on earth.
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It’s like disco inferno up in here.
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People can be teachers and idiots; they can be philosophers and idiots; they can be politicians and idiots... in fact I think they have to be... a genius can be an idiot. The world is largely run for and by idiots; it is no great handicap in life and in certain areas is actually a distinct advantage and even a prerequisite for advancement.
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Over the years, my 'Door' paintings have become somewhat mythologized.
