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Dave Hickey Quotes

If I go to London, everyone wants to talk about Damien Hirst. I'm just not interested in him. Never have been.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: critic
Nationality: american
Birth: December 5, 1940

Topics

Go London Talk Never Him Everyone

As with the factory, so with the office: in an assembly line, the smaller the piece of work assigned to any single individual, the less skill it requires, and the less likely the possibility that doing it well will lead to doing something more interesting and better paid.

Work Better Interesting Doing Skill

Religion obviously played a role in this book and the previous book, too.

Religion Book Role Played Too

Things down here in Hawaii are similar to Alabama. We go to church every Sunday. People are treated like family there just like here. There are many similarities there, and you want to be somewhere that feels like home, and that's what Alabama feels like.

Family Home People Church You Down

The great thing about a sitcom is that you're in front of a live audience, so you really get in touch with what audience reaction is, but also there are lots of elements of film that you're dealing with, and there's kind of a great boot camp or graduate school mentality to it, because you're going to suck.

Live Great School You Kind Touch

Looking back, I just think I was a really average sort of girl.

Girl Looking Back Looking Think Back

I don't think of my songs as sad songs. I think of them as vulnerable and honest. I crack jokes in between songs, so people don't leave feeling too dark.

Sad People Think Feeling Dark Jokes

There's not a lot of gay programming on TV.

Gay Programming TV Lot

One day, the infielders were having a pretty bad time and were making some bad throws to me at first base. After digging a few out of the dirt, Joe Orengo called over to me, 'Atta boy, John, you look like a big cat.' Some of the writers overheard the remark and asked Joe about it later. The nickname has stuck with me ever since.

Time Day Me You Look Bad

I turned down a film that was offered to me in the very early '80s, a Scorsese film. That probably wasn't a good career move.

Christopher Lloyd

Good Me Early Career Down Film

There are some aspects of the story of 'Power' that clearly are about race in the sense that any one of us now who's black and was raised in this country was raised with a lie, which is, 'You can never be president.' That's not true.

Courtney A. Kemp

Power Lie Story Black You Country

A Texas upbringing - and living now in Brooklyn, too - have surely helped my appreciation for open spaces and skies, but beyond that, it's not easy to find words for what it feels like to be up in the Rockies or out on the Great Basin - such silences and spaces! - or to be heading up into the Sierra Nevada Mountains.

Great Words Mountains Appreciation

Unfortunately, Republicans repeatedly waste taxpayer time and money, and even shut down the government, in efforts to repeal ACA. We simply cannot afford this kind of dysfunction.

Time Money Government Down Kind

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