John Hurt Quotes

For everything that you find dreadful, there's usually something that is rather marvelous as well.

John Hurt

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• I don't deal in pretentious kids' parties.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Kids
  • Deal
  • Pretentious

• 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.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • People
  • Time
  • Best

• 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.

  

  T. J. Perkins
  • Up
  • Dream
  • Night

• I don't like doing the same material over and over again. It's not fun.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Fun
  • Doing
  • Again

• Blues are the songs of despair, but gospel songs are the songs of hope.

  

  Mahalia Jackson
  • Hope
  • Despair
  • Blues

• An important notion in Indian political thought that is of great value to Hungary is the idea of peaceful development.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Great
  • Important
  • Political

• 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.

  

  Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
  • Thinking
  • Society
  • Risk

• If it's a woman, it's caustic; if it's a man, it's authoritative.

  

  Barbara Walters
  • Man
  • Woman
  • Authoritative

• A high-brow is someone who looks at a sausage and thinks of Picasso.

  

  A. P. Herbert
  • High
  • Looks
  • Someone

• Don't take yourself too seriously! You only live once!

  

  Harley Viera-Newton
  • Live
  • You
  • Yourself

• I'm amazed by the misconceptions about Muslim women and the Arab world that I hear, and that really does hurt me.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • World
  • Women
  • Hurt

• I love the structural part of the writing process.

  

  Kate Morton
  • Writing
  • Process
  • Part

• 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.

  

  Karen Traviss
  • Up
  • Art
  • House

• 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.

  

  Vin Scully
  • Life
  • Game
  • Hate

• I haven't collected memorabilia. I am not a person who lives in the past.

  

  Yvonne Craig
  • Past
  • Collected
  • Memorabilia

• 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.

  

  Vince Clarke Depeche Mode
  • Work
  • Done
  • Song

• I steal from every movie ever made.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Movie
  • Made
  • Ever

• 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.

  

  Gail Carson Levine
  • Up
  • Children
  • True

• I've become a lot more tolerant; I think before I talk. I can take a lot now. I don't get as angry as I used to. Whenever I do, I channel my anger into my work.

  

  Anurag Kashyap
  • Work
  • Angry

• I think - you know, I want to intimidate people when I'm on the field. I want people to be scared of me. That's just kind of the nature of who I am as a person and player. But I also know that you have to be emotional. You have to be in touch with your feelings. I think that's important.

  

  Carli Lloyd
  • Nature
  • Player
  • Feelings

• It is commonly observed, that when two Englishmen meet, their first talk is of the weather; they are in haste to tell each other, what each must already know, that it is hot or cold, bright or cloudy, windy or calm.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Cold
  • Calm

• I don't really try to predict what can and will happen with things. Sometimes you think something's gonna be a huge success, and it isn't. And sometimes you pay no attention to something whatsoever, and God just makes it into everything.

  

  LaDonna Adrian Gaines
  • God
  • Success
  • Attention

• For everything that you find dreadful, there's usually something that is rather marvelous as well.

  

  John Hurt