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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Theater, because of the commitment, it has to be a great role and a great play to me. It takes a lot out of you.
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Weakness ever sympathizes with vice, because vice is a weakness which assumes the mask of strength. Madness holds reason in horror, and on all subjects it delights in the exaggerations of falsehood. The cause of all bewitchments, the poison of all philtres, the power of all sorcerers are there.
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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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I'm not a huge fan of improv theater or improv sports or whatever, because it still just looks like a tool. It looks like a technique to me.
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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.
