John Hurt Quotes
It would be difficult to have any unfulfilled ambitions because I don't have any ambitions. I've never been that kind of performer.
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I really feel very strongly that the person who runs for office is the courageous one, and the one who everybody has to know.
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It takes 20 years to make an overnight success.
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I take pride in the creation of my wealth, in its existence and in the uses to which it has been and is being put.
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I always try to put something personal on my albums just to give people out there a little piece of my history and how I got where I am and who I am.
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I have vintage things that I got nine, 10 years ago, and every time I clean my closet, I can't get rid of them. I think, 'I will never find this again!'
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It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.
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When I was eleven, I got cast in the last directorial project of Christopher Reeve.
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I'm carrying an iPhone 5. I like this device. It's been impressive. I have a Windows and an Android device... I carry an iPad. I carry a Kindle... Yeah, I have a lot of devices.
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I could do an American accent, if I were immersed in the accent, meaning if I were living back in Los Angeles and rehearsing and auditioning the whole time.
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I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years.
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I refuse to be molded into some stereotypical ballplayer that has no interests, really, no life, no depth, no intelligence.
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Fat Joe ain't out here trying to battle-rap everybody in the world. That's not what I'm about.
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A work, however, should be judged by its design and its execution, and not by any preconceived notion of what it ought to be according to the critic, rather than the author.
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If ignorance is bliss, then knock the smile off my face.
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'You are a weak reed, Recruit Green!' Helve shouted. 'Weak reeds make for badly woven baskets! This platoon will not be a badly woven basket!'
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Nearly everyone interested in common stocks wants to be told by someone else what he thinks the market is going to do. The demand being there, it must be supplied.
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La condenación de un error es otro error.
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God has never disappointed me.
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I told her it was a bigger than life musical, that all the actors were going to be about the same age, late twenties into thirties. It would be a style; a kind of surreal high school.
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We should be inspired by people... who show that human beings can be kind, brave, generous, beautiful, strong-even in the most difficult circumstances.
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I've tried to avoid labels, but they always find you.
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I am so picky about what films I get myself into because it's such an explosion of energy and commitment once you get in there, you destroy your life until you deliver these films. I never want to be in the position of making films that won't be a great use of 90 minutes of someone's life.
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There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
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It would be difficult to have any unfulfilled ambitions because I don't have any ambitions. I've never been that kind of performer.
