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" I'm not really looking for theater work. But if somebody approaches me with enthusiasm, I might respond. "
David Hockney
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" I think my father would have liked to have been an artist, actually. But I think he didn't quite have perhaps the drive or, I don't know, I mean he had a family to bring up I suppose. "
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" People tell me they open my e-mails first, because they aren't demands and you don't need to reply. They're simply for pleasure. "
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" East Yorkshire, to the uninitiated, just looks like a lot of little hills. But it does have these marvelous valleys that were caused by glaciers, not rivers. So it is unusual. "
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" Most artists work all the time, they do actually, especially good artists, they work all the time, what else is there to do? I mean you do. "
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