Damien Mulley quote: "The current EU statement is the latest in a very long list of warnings sent to the Government and Minister Dempsey. The frequency of these warnings is increasing to such an extent that they seem to be a weekly occurrence. It is time to stop ignoring these warnings and to actively and directly address them."

Sometimes when you're drunk you can see better.
DAMIEN HIRST

I was taught to confront things you can't avoid. Death is one of those things. To live in a soci...
DAMIEN HIRST

I love movies where you can sense that the director risked biting off more than they can chew.
DAMIEN CHAZELLE

I was in this public high school in Princeton, and it had this topnotch jazz program - if you were a...
DAMIEN CHAZELLE

Each song is a small universe to me. Each song has a story of its own. Each has a full life to expre...
DAMIEN RICE

Being able to walk out of the studio after a week of intense recording and jump into a cold sea and ...
DAMIEN RICE

I just don't like to do a lot of the normal things expected of other artists. I'm not trying...
DAMIEN RICE

I was on paper earning more money and having more success than I'd ever had. And it was also the...
DAMIEN RICE

I opened up every can of worms I could. I got to the place where I would peel back one layer, and th...
DAMIEN RICE

Leonard Cohen has a way with words and with humor that remind me to lighten up, which I appreciate v...
DAMIEN RICE

I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to...
DAMIEN RICE

There's a Nina Simone record that I love, 'Live at Vine Street,' and she sings flat on i...
DAMIEN RICE

I have an abundance of enthusiasm; however, it would be foolish to think I can predict a future that...
DAMIEN RICE

Music enables me to cleanse and shed the things that I feel are holding me back from growing, or gro...
DAMIEN RICE

I'm not the guy that wants to be famous and make loads of money and sell loads of records. I don...
DAMIEN RICE

I am really curious about life, about why we are all here. I notice my skin is ageing, things are ch...
DAMIEN RICE

I don't have a craving for money. And I don't have a craving for fame.
DAMIEN RICE

I've learned very, very, very clearly that money does not equal happiness or security, either.
DAMIEN RICE

Everyone is capable of everything.
DAMIEN RICE

I don't want to stand in front of a whole lot of fakeys. If I'm going to meet someone and sa...
DAMIEN RICE

Inside, I've got a real purist desire and dream about the music. I like the idea of being able t...
DAMIEN RICE

The more I push myself to really live and really experience things and step outside of my comfort zo...
DAMIEN RICE

When I started off in music, I started with a real innocence, a real love for the instrument, the wr...
DAMIEN RICE

The best restriction I learned was getting into the habit of doing something, even if I didn't f...
DAMIEN RICE

I do not want to be a robot, a cog in society who answers 'yes' because 'yes' is con...
DAMIEN RICE

A kite needs to be tied down in order to fly. I learned how important restrictions can sometimes be ...
DAMIEN RICE

I live with myself. I wake up with myself, I eat, and I take a dump with myself. I don't see any...
DAMIEN RICE

Sometimes you have to step away from what you love in order to learn how to love it again.
DAMIEN RICE

When I'm in a place like Iceland, I allow myself to take a little more time to divert off onto o...
DAMIEN RICE

I want to get comfortable with my insecurities until I am no longer insecure. I want to be comfortab...
DAMIEN RICE

I always feel like the art's there and I just see it, so it's not really a lot of work.
DAMIEN HIRST

A painting probably is the most shocking increase in value, from what it costs to make to what you s...
DAMIEN HIRST

People don't like contemporary art, but all art starts life as contemporary - I can't really...
DAMIEN HIRST

No, I don't believe in genius. I believe in freedom. I think anyone can do it. Anyone can be lik...
DAMIEN HIRST

I always look at money not as a motivating factor but as an element in the composition. You can'...
DAMIEN HIRST

People always say that my work is sensational or shocking but there are truly shocking things you co...
DAMIEN HIRST

Making art, good art, is always a struggle. It can make you happy when you pull it off. There's ...
DAMIEN HIRST

But the answer to how to live is to stop thinking about it. And just to live. But you're doing t...
DAMIEN HIRST

You need a big ego to be an artist.
DAMIEN HIRST

Kids are naturally gifted at art from a very young age. The problem is when they get older and becom...
DAMIEN HIRST

But whenever I look at the question of how to live, the answer's always staring me in the face. ...
DAMIEN HIRST

The difference between art about death and actual death is that one's a celebration and the othe...
DAMIEN HIRST

'Painting like a child' isn't a negative for me... it's something only great artists...
DAMIEN HIRST

It's amazing what you can do with an E in A-Level art, a twisted imagination and a chainsaw.
DAMIEN HIRST

It's good to have a title that's not just one word. If you're gonna title it, you might ...
DAMIEN HIRST

The goal in life is to be solid, whereas the way that life works is totally fluid, so you can never ...
DAMIEN HIRST

I think art is good at looking back and looking forward. I don't think art is good at looking he...
DAMIEN HIRST

Painting is so poetic, while sculpture is more logical and scientific and makes you worry about grav...
DAMIEN HIRST

Great art - or good art - is when you look at it, experience it and it stays in your mind. I don'...
DAMIEN HIRST

I'd love to interview Bill Clinton. I know that might be a little boring, but he's so intere...
DAMIEN FAHEY

Personally, I'm not into reality shows - I can't even name a reality show that I was a reall...
DAMIEN FAHEY

I handle screenings and award ceremonies really badly.
DAMIEN CHAZELLE

It's interesting when you wind up distilling all your ambitions and your goals and dreams into o...
DAMIEN CHAZELLE

The greatest thing has been that projects that were pipe dreams before 'Whiplash' are now fe...
DAMIEN CHAZELLE

It's easy to show terrible people's behavior on screen, and we all just kind of nod and go, ...
DAMIEN CHAZELLE

'La La Land' is about the city I live in. It's about the music that I grew up playing; i...
DAMIEN CHAZELLE

I like movies that are specific. Movies that home in on a very specific subculture, a specific disci...
DAMIEN CHAZELLE

Nothing is guaranteed to last, so you should just enjoy it as it happens.
DAMIEN CHAZELLE

I didn't feel the kind of joy every day playing drums that I thought you were supposed to feel.
DAMIEN CHAZELLE

I was a writer for hire. I wrote to pay the bills.
DAMIEN CHAZELLE

By the end of high school, I had this fork-in-the-road moment where part of me considered going to v...
DAMIEN CHAZELLE

One interesting thing about jazz, or art in general, but jazz especially is such an individual art f...
DAMIEN CHAZELLE

My version of a stress dream is, really, showing up on a concert stage with a drum set and not knowi...
DAMIEN CHAZELLE

I remember moving out to L.A. straight after college and just starting to try to write scripts and t...
DAMIEN CHAZELLE

My motivation for being a good drummer was born out of fear, which, in a way, seems so antithetical ...
DAMIEN CHAZELLE

I guess I'm kind of interested in that elusive search for a bond between life and work and betwe...
DAMIEN CHAZELLE

I'm predisposed to never be in pure celebration mode.
DAMIEN CHAZELLE

I actually grew up wanting to be a filmmaker. I wanted to make movies, and music was a detour, almos...
DAMIEN CHAZELLE

There are a lot of musicians in my life. But movies came first for me. That was my original passion.
DAMIEN CHAZELLE

I like a set to be a happy place, where people can feel free to experiment.
DAMIEN CHAZELLE

There something to be said for having even unrealistic dreams. Even if the dreams don't come tru...
DAMIEN CHAZELLE

When you're trying to paint a portrait of a very specific world, you're trying to show what ...
DAMIEN CHAZELLE

I remember when I first met Jason Reitman with the 'Whiplash' script; he quickly became a me...
DAMIEN CHAZELLE

I hadn't seen that many movies that really go deep enough into the fears of playing music or the...
DAMIEN CHAZELLE

I was a jazz drummer, and it was my life for a while: what I lived and breathed every day.
DAMIEN CHAZELLE

But it's like the horror of being in a studio with a blank canvas. I used to always run out of i...
DAMIEN HIRST

Prison is designed to separate, isolate, and alienate you from everyone and everything. You're not a...
DAMIEN ECHOLS

If you pray for rain, don't be surprised if you're struck by lightning.
DAMIEN CANNON

I think, especially living in L.A., it's very easy to get wrapped up in weekend announcements an...
DAMIEN CHAZELLE

I think suicide is the most perfect thing you can do in life.
DAMIEN HIRST

So smoking is the perfect way to commit suicide without actually dying. I smoke because it's bad...
DAMIEN HIRST

As a drummer, you're always fighting for a level that you never quite attain.
DAMIEN CHAZELLE

In an artwork you're always looking for artistic decisions, so an ashtray is perfect. An ashtray...
DAMIEN HIRST

In some ways, jazz is the most precise of art forms and the loosest in the sense that it's all a...
DAMIEN CHAZELLE

The go-to reflex all over Hollywood is still likeability. I've always had a problem with it beca...
DAMIEN CHAZELLE

I have always been aware that you have to get people listening before you can change their minds. An...
DAMIEN HIRST

It's certainly no coincidence that big bands became the entertainment of the army in WWI and WWI...
DAMIEN CHAZELLE

Service... Giving what you don't have to give. Giving when you don't need to give. Giving because...
DAMIEN HESS

If there's a good review, I'll skip over the headline, but I always find the bad reviews and...
DAMIEN CHAZELLE

When someone is playing drums, they aren't actually moving around a space; they're just movi...
DAMIEN CHAZELLE

If you pray for rain, don't be surprised if you're struck by lightning.
DAMIEN CANNON

Since I was a child, death is definitely something that I think about every day. But I think that ev...
DAMIEN HIRST

What I really like is minimum effort for maximum effect.
DAMIEN HIRST

It's been a great spectacle -- I haven't done that for a while. It's a great opportunity to (score r...
DAMIEN MARTYN

I always feel a bit trapped when a painting goes for millions of pounds and only one person can have...
DAMIEN HIRST

You know when you've found it that's something I've learned, cause you feel it when they take it awa...
DAMIEN RICE

A bloke for the 90s
DAMIEN HIRST

People like Art Blakey and Buddy Rich, you look at them playing music, and it's just like lookin...
DAMIEN CHAZELLE

I find L.A. kind of romantic, actually. As a movie junkie, it's a city that was built by the mov...
DAMIEN CHAZELLE

It's a great advantage to be able to play people off against each other, isn't it? You go to...
DAMIEN HIRST

I remember when you used to have your profession on your passport and I always thought that being a ...
DAMIEN HIRST

But I always liked the fact that you get these totally unacceptable images, but they're taken by a r...
DAMIEN HIRST

Because it's visual art, a lot of it comes from childhood experience but then a lot comes from the v...
DAMIEN HIRST

My first movie was totally improvised.
DAMIEN CHAZELLE

As a father, I would say I am more like a mother. I do a lot of hugging.
DAMIEN HIRST

If you're an artist, you want to draw from real life; you want to draw from experiences, emotion...
DAMIEN CHAZELLE

I don't think of 'Macbeth' as the villain. I don't think of 'King Lear' as t...
DAMIEN CHAZELLE

But I'm more interested in why people are frightened by Jaws and why Jaws was such a hit than sa...
DAMIEN HIRST

What I love about jazz is that it's full of legends, full of myths. It's an oral history bec...
DAMIEN CHAZELLE

For me, art is always a kind of theater. When I started the spot paintings, I made them as an endles...
DAMIEN HIRST

I remember being inspired myself when smaller films, whether it's 'Beasts' or 'Winte...
DAMIEN CHAZELLE

Whiplash' was just a lucky kind of convergence of events in that I'd been trying to get a bi...
DAMIEN CHAZELLE

Picasso, Michelangelo, possibly, might be verging on genius, but I don't think a painter like Re...
DAMIEN HIRST

I have titles floating around in my head; I have sculptures floating around in my head. It's like a ...
DAMIEN HIRST

We're not enforcing our laws as strictly as we could. When you have a high percentage that is caused...
DAMIEN NEWTON

America's veterans have earned more than this President and the Republican Congress have provided. W...
DAMIEN LAVERA

Carney? Gentlemen, start your Honeymooners references.
DAMIEN COX

But I'm more interested in why people are frightened by Jaws and why Jaws was such a hit than saying...
DAMIEN HIRST

These women are sophisticated and educated about fashion. People have a misconception that this is a...
DAMIEN VERNET

Just because you're down doesn't mean you can't rise to be a cream-of-the-crop team. You just can't ...
DAMIEN WOODY

Ever since I was in the hospital, I don't take anything for granted. I cherish every second that I h...
DAMIEN HESS

So smoking is the perfect way to commit suicide without actually dying. I smoke because it's bad, it...
DAMIEN HIRST

I did a butterfly show in Berlin, and we had a guy who's an expert on butterflies; who bred them all...
DAMIEN HIRST

It's a gross misrepresentation to say gays were omitted from the grassroots report. African American...
DAMIEN LAVERA

Tomas has the excellent combination of a strong physical presence, agility and technical ability.
DAMIEN COMOLLI

It's a great budget. What we saw before was DOT trying to build its way out of congestion.
DAMIEN NEWTON

Those with less curiosity or ambition just mumble that God works in mysterious ways. I intend to cat...
DAMIEN ECHOLS

In an artwork you're always looking for artistic decisions, so an ashtray is perfect. An ashtray has...
DAMIEN HIRST

We've heard that they're appealing, and that's good, but they've lost a couple of cases. By all mean...
DAMIEN NEWTON

My eyes were closed, they're open now
DAMIEN RICE

Americans want change, not more of the same permanent commitment to a failed strategy in Iraq.
DAMIEN LAVERA

Everyone's nervous, once you hand over your weapons you're exposed.
DAMIEN KINGSBURY

I sometimes feel that I have nothing to say and I want to communicate this.
DAMIEN HIRST

But whenever I look at the question of how to live, the answer's always staring me in the face. I'm ...
DAMIEN HIRST

I think it's just, I really enjoy art, and I just hope that when people come and see the exhibition,...
DAMIEN HIRST

I always ignore money.
DAMIEN HIRST

In fact, the first piece of art I ever sold, I paid someone else to make the next one, so I could ac...
DAMIEN HIRST

Whereas if you suddenly go, OK, I choose to die now, you take the matter into your own hands.
DAMIEN HIRST

But I could never make a judgement that something was obscene.
DAMIEN HIRST

One thing leads to another with my work.
DAMIEN HIRST

And I think, you know, I like it, so I can't understand it, I think if you're gonna have this stuff ...
DAMIEN HIRST

I think if you've made it, why not name it?
DAMIEN HIRST

It'd be nice to make lots of money but it's quite difficult, because every time I make lots of money...
DAMIEN HIRST

I always feel like the art's there and I just see it, so it's not really a lot of work.
DAMIEN HIRST

There's always something you missed or something you didn't notice or somehow you got wrong... I don...
DAMIEN HIRST

I've seen things that are 200 years old, in formaldehyde.
DAMIEN HIRST

I don't really have a career plan.
DAMIEN HIRST

I have a Californian girlfriend and she's into a lot of Californian bands so I listen to that.
DAMIEN HIRST

Most people live in the city and go to the country at the weekend, and that's posh and aristocratic,...
DAMIEN HIRST

She wasn't much to look at, but she was great to dance with.
DAMIEN HIRST

It's good to have a title that's not just one word. If you're gonna title it, you might as well try ...
DAMIEN HIRST

I don't think I'd want my pet in formaldehyde, but I guess in America they would.
DAMIEN HIRST

There's a lot of things that people don't like, I think it'd be difficult for anyone to go in and sa...
DAMIEN HIRST

The shorter story;
No love, no glory;
No hero in her skies.
DAMIEN RICE

Lee crossed the line, but everybody does some wrong, and he has been very supportive of people in th...
DAMIEN MASON

Lee has one of the biggest hearts I've ever come across. He's an extremely generous person.
DAMIEN MASON

I can't deny it's influenced by Jaws.
DAMIEN HIRST

I think as an artist you have to reinvent yourself every day.
DAMIEN HIRST

It's hard, especially when the whistle gets a little sensitive. They were getting in our paint more ...
DAMIEN WILKINS

Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.
DAMIEN HIRST

Commercials are so contemporary and up to date that when you're involved in that visual world, you c...
DAMIEN HIRST

Sometimes when you're drunk you can see better.
DAMIEN HIRST

It's amazing what you can do with an E in A-level art, twisted imagination and a chainsaw.
DAMIEN HIRST

I don't really buy any, but I have a lot of friends who do, so I go out sober and say I'm not gonna ...
DAMIEN HIRST

My Mum brought me up to believe that if you look after the pennies then the pounds look after themse...
DAMIEN HIRST

You're not going to bait me into giving you what you want to hear.
DAMIEN WOODY

The end result of my personal story is that I became a really good drummer, and I know myself well e...
DAMIEN CHAZELLE

Our roads and streets are getting less safe. A lot of it's due to reckless driving, and we should be...
DAMIEN NEWTON

I wanted a shark that's big enough to eat you, and in a large enough amount of liquid so that you co...
DAMIEN HIRST

For five years, Republicans in Washington have consistently failed to help working families confront...
DAMIEN LAVERA

I didn't do a good job of hydrating myself during the week and kind of cramped up (in the second hal...
DAMIEN RHODES

I gave up painting by 16. I secretly thought I would have been Rembrandt by then.
DAMIEN HIRST

You'd never look at a Rembrandt and say, 'That's just wood and canvas and paint - how mu...
DAMIEN HIRST

I've been asked to do a retrospective since I was about 28 and I always thought that was a bit o...
DAMIEN HIRST

Every second, every day I couldn't get on the field, I missed it. There was nothing that could repla...
DAMIEN HESS

But I'm not ambitious for myself, or for attention.
DAMIEN HIRST

Nostalgia is the only friend that stays with you forever.
DAMIEN ECHOLS

Thirteen points is a lot to come back from, but we got their lead down to two points. That's four po...
DAMIEN WILKINS

Tracy's arguably one of the best perimeter players in the game right now. As long as he's on the flo...
DAMIEN WILKINS

The first thing I did as a child was draw. I wanted to make animated movies. I think Disney's &#...
DAMIEN CHAZELLE

If you look at 'West Side Story,' a lot of those numbers are actually pretty cutty, but the ...
DAMIEN CHAZELLE

Museums are for dead artists. I'd never show my work in the Tate. You'd never get me in that...
DAMIEN HIRST

I was always pretty decent at fast stick work or doing stuff that seems impressive that's not re...
DAMIEN CHAZELLE

I love being in the editing room and playing with tempo and with the rhythm of shots.
DAMIEN CHAZELLE

There's something very particular about the kind of rage you feel when you're alone in a pra...
DAMIEN CHAZELLE

I want to see how we bounce back from this. That will tell what kind of team we really have. When yo...
DAMIEN WOODY

Yeah, but this is not the same team as last year. This is a whole new season, a whole new team. This...
DAMIEN WOODY

It's early. How many teams do you know their philosophy in Week 2?
DAMIEN WOODY

I just want guys to realize what the truth is. This is the truth. We're 16-48 since 2001. That's it....
DAMIEN WOODY

I watched the game against Pittsburgh, and I knew what they were doing on almost every play because ...
DAMIEN WOODY

That's the one thing I'm trying to tell guys here: Anything can happen. When we went 5-11, people th...
DAMIEN WOODY

Any time an organization hasn't won a lot, you have to change the culture. No question we're a bette...
DAMIEN WOODY

It doesn't have to be one or two guys. I look at a team as everybody being shareholders in this thin...
DAMIEN WOODY

I don't know what point it was, but we decided not to defend any more. At some point we have to deci...
DAMIEN WILKINS

It's more or less us not executing well and not getting good looks at the basket, something we could...
DAMIEN WILKINS

We had a turnover, missed shots and Wally hits a 3. I don't know exactly how it went, but we were ri...
DAMIEN WILKINS

It's going to be a lot of fun. I just bought my mom a house there. She'll be there. I'm really excit...
DAMIEN WILKINS

I'm very excited to be back. This is the place for me. It feels good to be wanted and that they're h...
DAMIEN WILKINS

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