John Hurt Quotes
It's quite a dangerous career move to go wilfully on making films that may not find a distributor.
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I am a big believer that eventually everything comes back to you. You get back what you give out.
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Perhaps if we all subscribed to the African concept of Ubuntu - that we all become people through other people, and that we cannot be fully human alone, we could learn a lot. There'd be less hatred and more harmony.
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For mascara, I'll just use whatever I have in my bag. I'll use anything. I feel like, from drugstores to a Saks, they are all the same to me.
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If we desire a society in which men are brothers, then we must act towards one another with brotherhood. If we can build such a society, then we would have achieved the ultimate goal of human freedom.
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Freedom of expression is tested during times of anger and conflict and enables all opinions and outraged expressions of dissent that we may not want to hear. But even for this there have to be limits.
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Our relationship with Mexico in this regard is unique for us, and in many respects unique in the world.
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Fat noses have no place in the Hindi film industry. But it is not so in the West - otherwise, Anthony Quinn would have never been an actor.
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What America does best is produce the ability to accept failure.
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I said to Ruth Rendell, 'When you've written as many books as you have, it's easier.' She said, 'No dear, it gets harder'.
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I don't like traditions, I am very personal, very independent, I don't like intimate ladies, I mean in German lieder there's a lot of copy, a lot of imitation, a lot of tradition, and this I have put it aside.
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Sarcasm helps me overcome the harshness of the reality we live, eases the pain of scars and makes people smile.
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I'm not playing a role. I'm being myself, whatever the hell that is.
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I don't know how often I can discuss one incident in my entire life, but I'll continue to do that.
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The bad news motivated the drill instructors that much more.
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Bob Dylan impresses me about as much as... well, I was gonna say a slug but I like slugs.
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Historically, the notes of scale systems anywhere have been based on these pure harmonics.
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When I look at relationships, my own and others, I see a wide range of reasons for people to be together and ways in which they are together. I see ways in which a relationship - which means something that exists between two or more people - for the most part reinforces people's separateness as individual entities.
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Furthermore, the slaves cannot be put into a more wretched situation, ourselves being judges, and the community cannot take a more lively step to escape ruin, and obtain the smiles and protection of Heaven.
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(on whether he is bipolar.) Wow, what does that mean? … What's the cure? Medicine? Make me like them? Not going to happen. I'm bi-WINNING! I win here and I win there. Now what?
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Some people see life as a game of chess, while others prefer to see it as a game of cricket; but the longer I live, the more I think of it as a game of Consequences.
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At the end of a marathon, it's going to hurt whether you're speeding up or slowing down. You may as well push.
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I try to read as much as I can. I try to read an informative article every day. I try to stay read up on our world issues.
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I have no influence with the rising generation. All my arguments have failed to induce them to set bounds to their wants.
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It's quite a dangerous career move to go wilfully on making films that may not find a distributor.
