John Hurt Quotes
For everything that you find dreadful, there's usually something that is rather marvelous as well.
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I don't deal in pretentious kids' parties.
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If you don't feel like you're ready to get your license - just because people are putting pressure on you, don't feel like you have to rush into something. Take your time, really feel confident and be ready. It doesn't matter what other people say, do what's best for you and makes you feel safe.
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It's really exciting to be able to represent the cruiserweights and go to Monday Night Raw. I grew up watching Monday Night Raw, and it's really a big dream of mine to perform on that stage.
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I don't like doing the same material over and over again. It's not fun.
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An important notion in Indian political thought that is of great value to Hungary is the idea of peaceful development.
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Philanthropy is often seen as society's risk capital. That means the onus is on philanthropists, nonprofit leaders and social entrepreneurs to innovate. But philanthropic innovation is not just about creating something new. It also means applying new thinking to old problems, processes and systems.
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If it's a woman, it's caustic; if it's a man, it's authoritative.
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A high-brow is someone who looks at a sausage and thinks of Picasso.
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Don't take yourself too seriously! You only live once!
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I'm amazed by the misconceptions about Muslim women and the Arab world that I hear, and that really does hurt me.
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I love the structural part of the writing process.
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The art of storytelling is in development, not fact sheets. There are posts you have to hammer into the ground from the start just to get going, but if they don't hold up the house you build, you can change them or take them out.
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I really love baseball. The guys and the game, and I love the challenge of describing things. The only thing I hate - and I know you have to be realistic and pay the bills in this life - is the loneliness on the road.
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I haven't collected memorabilia. I am not a person who lives in the past.
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With a track like 'White Christmas,' everybody has done that song in every format you can imagine, so I just looked at the chords at that particular song and what chords would make it work. That's kind of quite a sad song, and I had this idea of someone singing it in the subway, someone who is homeless, old and sad.
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I steal from every movie ever made.
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Encourage children to write their own stories, and then don't rain on their parade. Don't say, 'That's not true.' Applaud flights of fantasy. Help with spelling and grammar, but stand up and cheer the use of imagination.
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I don’t think they’re gaining strength, what is true is that from the start, our goal has been first to contain and we have contained them. They have not gained ground in Iraq, and in Syria, they’ll come in, they’ll leave. But you don’t see this systematic march by ISIL across the terrain.
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The responsibility of the great states is to serve, and not to dominate, the world.
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Death is terrifying because it is so ordinary. It happens all the time.
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My demon is hating to have to do a regular day job. Being up on stage really helps me forget I have a life like that - when I did have a life like that. I find complete contentment and happiness when I'm playing in front of an audience.
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I was in a band called the SteelDrivers, and we just played hard in vans, hopping on airplanes, not knowing where you're at.
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For everything that you find dreadful, there's usually something that is rather marvelous as well.
