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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Honest talk about the deficit is risky. Voters are more enthusiastic about the abstract notion of deficit reduction than about the painful details of accomplishing it.
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I expect to retire to a fine-grained heaven where the temperatures are always consistent, where the images slide before one's eyes in a continual cascade of form and meaning.
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Everybody's got a puncher's chance in this game. I mean every single person on Earth. But my whole focus, my whole style, my whole dynamic is built around taking that power away from you. So where is the logic in why you're different from anybody else? There is no logic in it.
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I'm doomed romantically. I try to find a formula for everything in life, and that includes romance, but my methods haven't proven successful because there is no formula in romance.
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When you see a struggle that you may be having personally put on a big screen and in a roomful of people, then it makes you feel less crazy or alone, because you're seeing that other people are dealing with it too. You get to see in this imaginary scenario how people might try and answer some questions or deal with some problems.
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Painting is so poetic, while sculpture is more logical and scientific and makes you worry about gravity.
