John Hurt Quotes
My father's a clergyman, and he was in the mission field for a certain amount of time in British Honduras, which is now Belize.
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You need to take care of your time and practice, you need to rest and talk to media. So it's really important to organize those things.
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I get offers all the time from film makers, but they are unknown quantities. I don't go there and do experiments.
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'Yellow Moon' was a poem. My wife at the time, Joel - she's dead now - it was our 25th anniversary. She had the chance to go on a cruise with her sister. And I'm home with the kids and looking up, and I saw the big moon, and I just started writing.
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My motivation is tomorrow, just one day at a time, right?
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I don't want to miss out on the chance of having a good time.
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I've been influenced by some of the greatest designers. Charles Eames. And Bruno Munari in the '50s in Italy - when they had to retool the industry of war into an industry to help society. In a way, I'm influenced by designers that were there at a radical time of change.
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Over time, our emerging high-usage products will likely generate significant new revenue streams for Google as well as for our partners, just as search does today.
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I have nothing maternal in me, and men want to be mothered a lot of the time.
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I'll be in a series for three or four episodes, but then I'll be off the series, and downtime, as an actor, is a little more than most people understand. Most of the time you're just sitting around taking coffee with friends.
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My highest point was the first thing I won, a short story competition in a women's magazine in the Eighties. It was the first time I'd had my writing validated, and the first thing I'd ever shown anyone else.
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I want to be a better writer. I want to learn and grow, to know how to tell stories in a different and more challenging way. I've learned it doesn't get easier each time. It actually gets harder.
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Remember that nobody will ever get ahead of you as long as he is kicking you in the seat of the pants.
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I had a father and mother, who were devout and feared God. Our Lord also helped me with His grace. All this would have been enough to make me good, if I had not been so wicked.
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If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.
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I learned a long time ago in Hollywood that the only person I should vote for is myself.
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I try to take the time to appreciate and I certainly do appreciate and I do feel proud but that is probably one of the things I need to work on, building a bit of time for myself.
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Perhaps at some time in the future, when you ask a friend to come up and look at your etchings, you will plug in your collection of video art.
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A holiday is when you celebrate something that's all finished up, that happened a long time ago and now there's nothing left to celebrate but the dead.
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I am his Highness' dog at Kew; Pray tell me, sir, whose dog are you?
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I don't even think twice about wearing a swimsuit because it's always been a part of my lifestyle.
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The story of Americans is the story of arrested metamorphoses. Those who achieve success come to a halt and accept themselves as they are. Those who fail become resigned and accept themselves as they are.
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I love exploring the characters that I play, but the reason I sign on for something isn't the details of the story but the universal message.
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I'm not a planner. I like to try something different, to just see what happens.
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My father's a clergyman, and he was in the mission field for a certain amount of time in British Honduras, which is now Belize.
