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Quote by David Hockney
I moved to California just on a hunch that I would like it.
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The speaker says the move to California was based on a hunch rather than certainty or detailed planning. They simply felt they would like living there and acted on that expectation. The quote presents the decision as an intuitive risk: a feeling about a place was strong enough to justify trying it.
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- Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Artists on Art Audio Transcript
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