Gary Hume Quotes
A painting should be tough; it should have muscle, but I have to find some tenderness in it, too. There has to be that dynamic.
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A person that says, 'Losing is not difficult,' I don't even want to be around that person. And obviously, that person has never won anything relevant in their life.
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There are two types of people in the world. People who like kids, and people who don't. People who complain about kids screaming on aeroplanes and in restaurants, and those people who love kids and enjoy their energy and enjoy hearing the noise they make and get off on their energy. I am one of those people who happens to love kids.
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I look for what needs to be done. After all, that's how the universe designs itself.
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I have one of these bodies. When I was younger, I could never put weight on, and now that I'm a little older, there's a natural sort of chubbiness coming. But honestly, if I work out for a week, it drops off in no time.
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That attitude and toughness that we want to play with, that, to me, is the most critical thing.
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The foundation of family - that's where it all begins for me.
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I was afraid I would see someone from my past who thought I was this big athlete, and then I end up being just normal.
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I was never the girl who tore pictures out of wedding magazines.
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I wanted to stay on a career path of the likes of Natalie Portman. I didn't want to be pigeonholed into a certain genre. I sort of believe that slow and steady wins the race.
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The good poet sticks to his real loves, those within the realm of possibility. He never tries to hold hands with God or the human race.
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Well, yeah, but I probably wasn't as open about my desperation.
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Bald is the new black!
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One thing I've learned now is that I should not say when a book is coming out until I'm sure I know.
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I want to top expectations. I want to blow you away.
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I have never been beautiful in cliche terms.
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Before 'Gremlins,' I was a normal person, then within two weeks of the movie coming out, I couldn't walk into a store without people turning around and staring. It's exciting and also scary because everyone starts telling you how amazing you are.
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I think that most of the children's writers live in the world that they've created, and their children are kind of phantoms that wander around the edge of it in the world, but actually the children's writers are the children.
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No 27-year-old has the experience to run a company that does a quarter of a billion dollars a year in sales.
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Over the years, my 'Door' paintings have become somewhat mythologized.
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For aspiring actors out there, I would say stay focused and don't let anyone pull you away from your goals. Shoot for the stars so that if you ever fall short you can land on the clouds.
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I know for sure that I have an instinct for color, and that it will come to me more and more, that painting is in the very marrow of my bones.
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Songwriting is a mysterious art. When I sit down to write a song, the end result should be mysterious and have this dark quality.
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The only thing that is or should be equal in the creation of wealth is the opportunity to participate. Everything else is naturally and rightfully dependent on personal and often exclusively inherent advantages and disadvantages. The imagined outcomes and side benefits are impossible to guarantee. The shared human experience should have taught us, by any objective standard, that making a mirage your focus will undermine your chances of finding gold.
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A painting should be tough; it should have muscle, but I have to find some tenderness in it, too. There has to be that dynamic.
