Damien Hirst Quotes
Painting is so poetic, while sculpture is more logical and scientific and makes you worry about gravity.
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I always played to win.
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I've worked hard over the years, I've been injured and I've worked hard through it, and I've made it.
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Being American and being an outsider at the same time, it's a perspective I often bring to a character.
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There are too many books I haven't read, too many places I haven't seen, too many memories I haven't kept long enough.
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I've always been a rough kid.
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Leonard Cohen has a way with words and with humor that remind me to lighten up, which I appreciate very much.
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An actor has to embody a role.
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There were centuries when civilization had no theater.
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Everyone wants me to be perfect, but I am so far from perfect!
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I've been in the room or watched artists walk in who don't write, and you can't figure out what they really want.
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Catalytic oxidation in living substances rests upon change of valency in an iron compound which is the respiratory oxygen-transferring ferment.
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I don't want to become known as just a body.
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You make your mistakes to learn how to get to the good stuff.
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I just picked up golf, it was good, give me a chance to play golf.
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As a European I had fit in almost seamlessly in New York for the last 25 years, but in Oklahoma I stood out like a sore thumb.
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If there are kids who want to follow in my footsteps, I'd say that my shoes are too big for them to fill! But their shoe size is just perfect.
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What's the most important thing in the world? It's love, and I look at that as an energy, not a sentiment.
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You find the most important thing that really grabs you, and put it right up top. Don't bury the lead. Put it at the top. Best thing to do. Never go wrong that way. It's an immutable law of journalism. It just always works.
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In 2014, I knew my English was not so bad, but I had no confidence in talking directly to an English-speaking reporter. I had to do a short interview with, I think, Reuters from France. I was so nervous. I practiced memorizing three sentences for two hours. But, I think that these kinds of interviews make me develop a lot, and that helps me.
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To move the picture into our surroundings and give it real existence has been my ideal since I came to abstract painting.
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The tongue is the only tool that gets sharper with use.
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All men are born equal, but quite a few eventually get over it.
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Painting is so poetic, while sculpture is more logical and scientific and makes you worry about gravity.
