John Hurt Quotes
If you do an interview in 1960, something it's bound to change by the year 2000. And if it doesn't, then there's something drastically wrong.
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I think that everyone should be able to dribble. Everyone should be able to pass. Otherwise, why are you out there?
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I guess, for better or for worse, I am an American composer, and I've had a wonderful life being exactly that.
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People always say I'm a legend, but I'm not. Not until I've defended my Olympic titles. That's when I've decided I'll be a legend.
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From the sons of Ith, the first of the Gael to get his death in Ireland, there came in the after time Fathadh Canaan, that got the sway over the whole world from the rising to the setting sun, and that took hostages of the streams and the birds and the languages.
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Focus on being balanced - success is balance.
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I see the first lady as another means to keep a president from becoming isolated.
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Recognising that the future growth of India will depend on greater skill development, the National Policy for Skill Development aims to create a skilled workforce of 500 million by 2022.
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There is no better way to make peace than to talk in each other's home. Avoiding such talks is a denial of the purpose of the negotiations.
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We never really know what's around the corner when we're filming - what turn a story will take, what a character will do or say to surprise us, how the events in the world will impact our story.
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Everything in America is so stratified by class now. We have the 93rd level of income inequality in the world. You're already seeing highway lanes that are for pay and ones that aren't.
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Baseball is meant to be a contemplative game. They play music to draw young people to the game. If young people can't come to the game without music, then they should stay home.
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Good scripts are hard to find.
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My time at Komen has been well publicized and scrutinized, especially my departure over the funding of Planned Parenthood.
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17 is the weirdest age, because you can't figure out if you want to grow up or be a child.
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There's so much with my character in 'Dredd' that I identify with. She's my favorite character I think I've ever played. She's the most dynamic and fascinating woman that I could even imagine playing, so I love her. What I love about her is that her sensitivity is her greatest strength.
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An only child alone and wildA cabinet maker's son.His hands were meant for different workAnd his heart was known to none -He left his home and went his lone and solitary wayAnd he gave to me a gift I knowI never can repay.
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The things people say of a man do not alter a man. He is what he is. Public opinion is of no value whatsoever.
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Her modest looks the cottage might adorn,Sweet as the primrose peeps beneath the thorn.
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We help other people because we can, or because it makes us feel good, not because we're counting on some future payback. There is a word for this; love.
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In my theater work, I've had much more three-dimensional, broader-stroke characters.
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Everything we know has its origin in questions. Questions, we might say, are the principal intellectual instruments available to human beings. Then how is it possible that no more than one in one hundred students has ever been exposed to an extended and systematic study of the art and science of question-asking? How come Alan Bloom did not mention this, or E. D. Hirsh, Jr., or so many others who have written books on how to improve our schools? Did they simply fail to notice that the principal intellectual instrument available to huÂman beings is not examined in school?
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There are times when you're working with film people when you have to say, 'If the camera were on you, what you're doing would be perfect'.
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You don't make your words true by embellishing them with religious lace. In making your speech sound more religious, it becomes less true.
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If you do an interview in 1960, something it's bound to change by the year 2000. And if it doesn't, then there's something drastically wrong.
