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As a father, I would say I am more like a mother. I do a lot of hugging.
Damien Hirst
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Damien Hirst
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: June 7
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Gloucestershire
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I did a butterfly show in Berlin, and we had a guy who's an expert on butterflies who bred them all and who looks after them all in the space.
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But whenever I look at the question of how to live, the answer's always staring me in the face. I'm already doing it.
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I sometimes feel that I have nothing to say and I want to communicate this.
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I was brought up Catholic, and I felt the power of art from a very young age - seeing the brutality of all those images of flayed apostles and tortured saints was a pretty strong introduction.
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