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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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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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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Don't lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations. Expect the best of yourself, and then do what is necessary to make it a reality.
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If we look at things scientifically, there is more than enough food and material goods on Earth to take care of all people's needs - if managed correctly.
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It is concern that precedes and inspires agendas, and survives when agendas fail, and it causes us to try again, always trying our best, never certain about our own judgment. It is knowing that God's purpose exceeds whatever we can put in an agenda.
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Somehow Photoshop and the ease with which one can produce an image has degraded the quality of photography in general.
Elliott Erwitt -
I really feel that acting for film and acting for the stage are two different crafts. I think that they share things in common. But I liken it to a painter switching over to photography. There are similar things - you have to be conscious of light and color and form - but it's a whole different medium.
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For me photography is an excuse to be nosy about things I want to know about.
