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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I still consider myself a working-class girl and would send my kids to public school.
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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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Born Berlin 1931, Germany, father a British diplomat, mother an American artist. Educated at various schools all over the world. 1958 Settled down to live in London. 1966 Became interested in photography through photographing my young children. No formal training.
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Without excuse and self-consideration of health or limb or life, true soldiers fight, live to fight, love the thickest of the fight, and die in the midst of it.
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It is my intention to present - through the medium of photography - intuitive observations of the natural world which may have meaning to the spectators.
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For me photography is an excuse to be nosy about things I want to know about.
