John Hurt Quotes
Pretending to be other people is my game and that to me is the essence of the whole business of acting.
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I feel fine as long I'm not running around.
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Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.
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Fiji had experienced the ordeal of two military coups.
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When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don't want to marry too late. Around 31?
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To develop drugs for people, we basically dismantle the system. In the lab, we look at things the size of a cell or two. We dismantle life into very small models.
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The good news is that real-world hands-on conservation is alive and well and catching on across the America I travel.
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It has not been easy to wake up every single day at 6:30 in the morning to then head to the gym and start a full day of work. But you have to have that kind of dedication if you want to achieve the goals you have set for yourself.
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I've been in this business a long time, and I'm very clear on what is real and what is fleeting.
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We have to balance the lineality of the known universe with the nonlineality of the unknown universe.
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I've concentrated for a long time on English films because I've got two kids but my oldest son is 11 and I think I'm going to be away for about four months of year now.
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I remember when I was in third grade, I was in a classroom, and the teacher said, 'What do you want to do when you get older?' We were going around the room. I said, 'I want to be a professional basketball player.' She's like, 'That's not realistic.' I thought to myself, 'OK, watch.'
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In some weird, warped way, I'm actually convinced that if I got mugged, I could probably take out the guy.
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Every newspaper editor says the heart of the paper is the reporter - which is true - except for the pay!
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Pre-Internet, maybe it took six months for a fashion message to get across to a customer base. Fashion messages are now being sent out overnight, simultaneously, to every market in the world.
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Online hierarchies are inherently dynamic. The moment someone stops adding value to the community, his influence starts to wane.
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On my desk, I always have a lemon or a lime drying. I love the fragrance. Also, a Staedtler eraser, a brush for the eraser and a pencil sharpener.
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I pick and choose my battles, but I overthink everything because I have to think about everything.
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I've never been in an acting class in my life.
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I'm always sexy. You gotta stay sexy.
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For me, theory has always opened things up to where I can walk into a room and just by hearing something I know exactly where to go on the guitar. I have a better time playing because I have a variety of colors to bring to the table.
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Anything that you give your attention to will become your "truth"... The Law of attraction says that it must. Your life and everyone else's too is but a reflection of the predominance of your thoughts. There is no exception to this.
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Listen, I wrote 10 unsuccessful books before I broke through, so I'm looking all the time to keep my books fascinating. I want to write what people want to read, not push any message.
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Canada is the greatest nation in this country.
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Pretending to be other people is my game and that to me is the essence of the whole business of acting.
