John Hurt Quotes
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I grew up with injustice and could do nothing about it. But once in America, I had freedom of choice.
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I always tell my children, 'You have to face your fear. If not, it's like running from a dog that will bite you in the back.'
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I told my agents that I love Holly Hunter and Frances McDormand and all of these women that are good at doing comedies as well as dramas.
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I like 'The Nightly Show.' People ask me what it is, and I say, 'If you're watching 'The Daily Show,' and it feels like it's getting a little darker, you're probably watching 'The Nightly Show.''
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Obamacare is going to destroy the elderly by denying care, by even perhaps denying treatment to people who are in catastrophic circumstances.
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I'm the Jerry Lewis of crime fiction.
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I'm not afraid of special effects, but I see them very much as a means to an end.
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No one pays me to be nice.
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I'm one of those crazy people, if I'm watching the trailer for a movie and I'm really excited by it, I'll turn it off because I don't want to know anything. I want to be surprised because I love that more than knowing anything.
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I didn't have a role model. My role model was Michael Jordan. Bad role model for an Indian dude... I didn't have anyone who looked like me. And by the time I was old enough to have what could have been a role model, they were my peers. Aziz Ansari is my peer. Kal Penn is my peer.
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I wanted to be Beetlejuice. I watched nonstop 'Beetlejuice' and 'The Princess Bride' growing up.
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It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.
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We must have serious dialogue between Catalonia and the Spanish state on a referendum, on independence, and on how a separation from Spain - if that's what the Catalan people choose - would be accomplished.
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I've always wanted to do a lot of things.
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The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still small voice of conscience.
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When you're in the music business, everything is very personal, because you are invested in everything; there's a very deep, personal attachment to your music.
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Stealing things is a glorious occupations, particularly in the art world.
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The cut of the bikini is definitely important. You want to wear one that compliments your body type.
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I've always said that when I retire, I'll decide in the training room and not after a fight.
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Basketball for me has always been a matter of rhythm - what you do bouncing the ball, how you bounce the ball, how you run, how you receive the ball to be in rhythm.
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I believe in order to make a friend, you have to be a friend.
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There are so few strong roles for women, especially young women. And Veronica is very serious but also very likable. She's a lone wolf, and it appeals to people that she isn't rich and doesn't have a lot of friends. No posse. She's just like you, like most of us.
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I don't care about the length of anything I play, as long as it's a good character.
