Danny Huston Quotes
I resisted the film business as long as I could, because of the big circus act and the amount of money that it costs to make films - I saw my father suffer through that.
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I've never been a partier.
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In 1958, my father invested everything he had in a business venture and became the largest automobile dealership in Chicago for Ford's new Edsel line. But Edsel sales plummeted and my father fell into bankruptcy. I watched him struggle; working long hours to protect us from poverty.
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I'm a big sports fan - mainly basketball.
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Women with minimal access to resources and no access to child care have limited choices that too often mean low-wage and part-time labor. In rural communities in the developing world, when women farmers have unequal access to fertilizers or training, their farm productivity lags behind men.
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Allowing homosexuality means allowing satanic rights.
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I'm still dreaming to be the next Missy Elliott.
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I think about death most of the day, every day. We can't escape death, and choosing to ignore it only makes it more scary.
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I am proud to have played a small part in ensuring that no veteran's heroic service will be cast aside due to prejudice.
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I have always been small, so defenders have always been taller and tougher than me. So that's difficult for me; they foul me sometimes, but there you are - that's what the rules of the game are for.
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When I began I thought that literature was contained within a bubble that somehow floated above the world commented upon by newspapers. But I became more and more interested in trying to include some of that world within my work.
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My happy place is holding my daughter and my husband in the same hug. It really is. I'm getting emotional just thinking about it. I consider it such a privilege, and I know that I'm lucky. I never want to take it for granted.
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The food system is not a free market. In this country, we impose reasonably high standards of animal welfare - but we haven't applied the same standards to food we import, so all we're really doing is exporting cruelty from Britain elsewhere, and at the same time undermining our farmers.
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Celebrities are just like us and like any of your friends. I love working with people.
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I've turned down twentysomething million dollars for movies.
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Change is inevitable. Things absolutely cannot stay the same. The type of change we invoke is up to each and every one of us.
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My father was never around, and my mother used to worry that the kids won't grow up to be connected to him.
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All paths are the same, leading nowhere. Therefore, pick a path with heart!
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People think I'm trying to make a fashion statement because I never wear a bra. It's really that I'm a tomboy at heart.
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Make gifts meaningful by putting the time in creating them, whether baking and cooking, or in making arts and craft. It will all have more meaning for the giver and receiver.
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A lot of my work is about what's abstract and what's pictorial. Is it bubblegum, or is it an abstract painting using bubblegum? The energy comes from walking that line and watching things dip this way and that.
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Strong Islamist trends make a fundamentalist Palestine more likely than a small state under a secular government.
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I like sex. I've had feedback but men will feed you back anything, won't they?
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Do not let yourself get in your own way. Don't judge yourself and knock yourself down. There is enough of that out there already. Remember: you are an artist, and you bring something special to this craft. Take in notes and criticism, but don't let them define you. Don't try to become a watered down version of yourself.
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I resisted the film business as long as I could, because of the big circus act and the amount of money that it costs to make films - I saw my father suffer through that.
