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I'm 43. I'm not ready to sit down in a chair with my name on it yet.

Damien Hirst

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Damien Hirst
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: June 7
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Bristol
Gloucestershire
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I think suicide is the most perfect thing you can do in life.
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When we are no longer children, we are already dead.
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I just do what everybody asks me to do, in terms of media and stuff.
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It's such a crass idea - you're either in love or out of love.
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Since I was a child, death is definitely something that I think about every day. But I think that everybody does. You try and avoid it, but it's such a big thing that you can't.
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I have always been aware that you have to get people listening before you can change their minds. Any artist's big fear is being ignored, so if you get debate, that's great.
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