David Hunt Quotes
Firemen can do almost everything. You already trust them in life-threatening situations; why not let them help you with your everyday problems, too?
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At one point, I had a story accepted at the 'New Yorker,' which sent off weird bells in people when I told them - 'Oh,' they thought, 'now you are a writer' - where I really had been for the last 30-odd years.
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Language is the most extraordinary invention in the history of humanity, the one which came before everything and which makes it possible to share everything.
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Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.
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A boy doesn't have to go to war to be a hero; he can say he doesn't like pie when he sees there isn't enough to go around.
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Kids have a great sense of humour. If you don't, you're going to miss out.
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I think you could ask 10 English people the same question about class and get a very different answer.
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Women become the objects of rules; they are repressed and lose their rights in the name of religion, or they lose their freedom in the name of tradition, while the state legitimates this foolishness with laws.
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I was deposed by a coup d'etat, by friends that I trusted and aided by the American Government.
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To my knowledge, no one has died from a cyberattack... but there is a gray area between peace and war.
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Sometimes we misunderstand what films can do. We just throw a whole book in there, with people just talking, talking, and talking. The picture can tell, the frame can tell.
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I'm really looking forward to working with Meghan Trainor because that's in the pipeline, and I'm eager for it to really happen.
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I was poor. When you're poor you work, and when you're rich you expect somebody to hand it to you. So I think being reasonably poor is very good for people.
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People talk about method actors, meaning someone that's prepared very, very well, or whatever they mean when they talk about it. But the right method is whatever works for you. And what works for me on any given day is going to be different.
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Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.
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I am joining the hundreds of thousands who shall be marching in the Virtual March on Washington to Stop Global Warming in order to demonstrate the concern that we all hold for the future of our planet and all the living things - flora, fauna, human and animal - that exist upon it.
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People in Hollywood are going make pictures where ever it's the least expensive to make them.
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Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.
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Our program for American GIs can be heard at 1630 hours.
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Outward Peace is useless without inner Peace.
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Honestly, I wish I could be a part of all the remakes of my father's films. But on second thought, I wouldn't want to be a part of any. The thought of being compared to him is unnerving. I'd rather do my films than live in the fear of living up to his standards.
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Ensuring the respect of international humanitarian law and principles is one of the key areas necessary to establish accountability chains.
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Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character.
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There is something sadder to lose than life – the reason for living; Sadder than to lose one's possessions is to lose one's hope.
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Firemen can do almost everything. You already trust them in life-threatening situations; why not let them help you with your everyday problems, too?
