David Hurn Quotes
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If you want your children to bring original ideas into the world, you need to let them pursue their passions, not yours.
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Something that I've struggled with for awhile is looking at our country voting on sound bites, and to me, character is really important.
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For an artist, a good place to be is you have some kind of influence and power to get things done, but in your essence you remain a nomad or a soldier facing a difficulty to be overcome.
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I love Chennai and its people. My mother always tells me, 'You should have been born a South Indian!'
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I get into all sorts of trouble with my publicists and with newspapers because I won't do photographs.
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I don't ever believe in violence as a kind of medicine.
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A hatred of failure has always been part of my nature.
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I generally fall sick if I eat very heavy food.
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I am definitely a serial monogamist. I can count on one hand the number of guys I've been with.
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I have turned off Google Alerts and don't Google my name or my pen names. I don't go on message boards. I don't read my book reviews.
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A lot of comedians are selfish.
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Most of all, I want to thank you for all the generous advance coverage you've given me in anticipation of a successful career. When I actually do something, we'll let you know.
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I had a year off, so my wife and I were heading to Italy to study Italian. We found a little house in a village called Atrani. I discovered that Gore Vidal lived right above us in a big house, so I sent him a note.
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It's unrealistic not to be able to indulge.
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My favourite thing is to be somebody else, no longer be me.
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Democratic strategists and operatives should not design a strategy based off today's conditions. They should be setting a strategy for where the trajectory of polling is headed.
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Right is right, and wrong is wrong, and when people start getting it confused, that means they need to sit down with some real people.
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Cholera is even more severe among populations who are immunologically naive.
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I'm basically drawn to defeated, injured, hurt, barely walking characters.
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Do good work and share it with people.
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In December of 1952, my first wife, Kirby, and I left Vienna to drive through the Russian sector of Austria into Yugoslavia.
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Everything always looked better in black and white. Everything always looked as if it were the first time; there's always more people in a black and white photograph. It just makes it seem that there were more people at a gig, more people at a football match, than with colour photography. Everything looks more exciting.
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He was a very generous soul and was exceptionally dedicated to the medium of photography.
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For me photography is an excuse to be nosy about things I want to know about.
