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I've been asked to do a retrospective since I was about 28 and I always thought that was a bit odd. It's great to look forward as an artist because in the future the possibilities are infinite; you look back and it's all fixed so it's a scary thing. ↗

— Damien Hirst

#always #artist #asked #back #because

My mother was a terrific force in my life. Wartime-generation woman, hadn't gone to university but should have done. Was very funny, very verbal, very clever, very witty. ↗

— Ian Hislop

#done #force #funny #gone #hadn

I'd always assumed that I would die at about the same age as my dad - he was 45. I am five years in credit now. I can't get my head around the fact that I am older than he was - ever. ↗

— Ian Hislop

#age #always #am #around #assumed

All the libel lawyers will tell you there's no libel any more, that everyone's given up. ↗

— Ian Hislop

#any #everyone #given #lawyers #libel

When an actor comes to me and wants to discuss his character, I say, 'It's in the script.' If he says, 'But what's my motivation?, ' I say, 'Your salary.' ↗

— Alfred Hitchcock

#character #comes #discuss #his #i

Give them pleasure - the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare. ↗

— Alfred Hitchcock

#nightmare #pleasure #same #them #up

Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some. ↗

— Alfred Hitchcock

#commercials #give #haven #help #murder

We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we are like. ↗

— Alfred Hitchcock

#bury #century #compulsion #days #give

I've been able to make a good living as a musician, but now it's time to do all the other stuff. ↗

— Robyn Hitchcock

#been #good #good living #i #living

Religion is part of the human make-up. It's also part of our cultural and intellectual history. Religion was our first attempt at literature, the texts, our first attempt at cosmology, making sense of where we are in the universe, our first attempt at health care, believing in faith healing, our first attempt at philosophy. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#attempt #believing #care #cosmology #cultural