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" I actually think the deafness makes you see clearer. If you can't hear, you somehow see. "
David Hockney
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" Television is becoming a collage - there are so many channels that you move through them making a collage yourself. In that sense, everyone sees something a bit different. "
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" I was 18 when I first visited London, I'm very provincial like that, but I must confess the moment I got to America I thought: This is the place. It was more open, with 24-hour cities and pubs and restaurants that didn't close. "
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" I grew up in austerity in the 1940s and 1950s. "
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