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 love summertime more than anything else in the world. That is the only thing that gets me through the winter, knowing that summer is going to be there.
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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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No other planet in the solar system is a suitable home for human beings; it's this world or nothing. That's a very powerful perception.
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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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Celebrate my escape, sold the Glock, bought some weight. Laid back, I got some money to make. Motherfucker!
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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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The work I did in Vertigo meant nothing if no one cared about the movie. Luckily, Vertigo had a revival and people had begun to recognize there was something special and it gained in reputation. But it just as well could have ended up rotting in film cans somewhere.
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I love Hanukkah because it's so weird. You just sit there and light candles and say spells.
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Success does not require you to look out the window, It only requires that you look in the mirror.
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For me photography is an excuse to be nosy about things I want to know about.
