John Hench Quotes
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I'm thinking of doing more theatre. It makes me very happy.
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When I'm around black or white people, I'm always in the middle. Especially when I am around black people; they will really tell how they feel about white people regardless of the fact that I'm also white and have white relatives. It's very interesting and can be really hard.
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You can get money and make a really cheap movie. You can, from independent financers who are just giving you money to support artists. This is what was happening in the '90s, and I was very fortunate to be a part of that.
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Portraying visual impairment is difficult. I can see what's going on, but I have to act like I can see nothing. And this can be quite a challenge.
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Don't you stay at home of evenings? Don't you love a cushioned seat in a corner, by the fireside, with your slippers on your feet?
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People say, what is she thinking? I'm thinking: fun; cash; travel.
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It's got to be the ballot or the bullet. The ballot or the bullet. If you're afraid to use an expression like that, you should get back in the cotton patch, you should get back in the alley.
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I think the worst thing that could have happened to me would have been having a hit at 20. I don't know what that would have done to me. But instead, I had to scrape a living for years. And my first show, which opened in 1969, lost over £45,000, an absolute fortune then.
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Every once in a while, someone will mail me a single popcorn kernel that didn't pop. I'll get out a fresh kernel, tape it to a piece of paper and mail it back to them.
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For me, if the words are good on the page, the rest of it comes from spending some time with the script, and not like you're learning lines but absorbing what the script has to offer.
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There is something enormously compelling about Fran Cutler. She is a thrilling bundle of energy and enthusiasm.
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The Marine Corps taught me how to kill, but it didn't teach me how to deal with killing.
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I am my own mentor. I like to listen to myself to improve.
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We hear tears loudly on this side of Heaven. What we don't take time to contemplate are the even louder cheers on the other side of death's valley.
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Now's the best time you'll ever have in life to get ahead!
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I enjoy getting dressed as a Barbie doll.
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She's wrong about absolutely everything, but she's wrong within normal parameters.
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Astonishingly, if you will have absolutely nothing to do with suffering, suffering will have nothing to do with you.
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Right at this moment, I only want silence. I believe that the end of life is silence in the love people have for you. I've actually been running through what people have said about the end. Religion says that the end is one thing, because it serves their purpose. But great thinkers alike haven't always agreed. Shakespeare knew how to say it better than anyone else. Hamlet says 'The rest is silence.' And when you think of the noises of everyday life, you realize how particularly desirable that is. Silence.
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The thing most worth doing in this modern world is to create jobs that men can work at, and be proud of, and make money by their work.
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The wealth of information now available at the click of a finger amazes me.
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Iranians defend and present their Islamic and Iranian identity to other people worldwide.
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Art can contradict Science.
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When you go to the park, there is no horizon - just Disneyland.
