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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Blues are the songs of despair, but gospel songs are the songs of hope.
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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 think people have had the understanding for many years that whatever happens with the separation of parents, that the kids automatically go to the mother. The fathers don't know their rights.
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So much light, sweet girl, begins in the dark.
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I think all religions can agree on certain definitions of God and concepts of God, like God being the god of love, the great 'I am' energy.
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It had always seemed to Louis that a fundamental desire to take postal courses was being sublimated by other people into sexual activity.
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For everything that you find dreadful, there's usually something that is rather marvelous as well.
