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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When I was 6, I opened my mouth and didn't stop singing. I had a voice and wanted to use it.
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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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One way the Tea Party has benefited female candidates - and the conservative movement generally - is by consciously steering clear of social issues.
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None of us wanted to be the bass player. In our minds he was the fat guy who always played at the back.
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I've always been fascinated by how the past impacts the present. For the first half of my career as a novelist, I wrote psychological suspense mysteries. I wanted to be a therapist but was told that while I was a fine diagnostician, I would be a terrible therapist because I wanted to solve everyone's problems.
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I'm an international actor, but at the same time, I'm also a Bollywood actor, even though most of my career has been abroad. However, I've always kept in touch with Hindi cinema.
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The older you get, the more comfortable you become with yourself, and you accept what you have physically.
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I've written fiction... but the nonfiction has always received the most attention.
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It's quite a dangerous career move to go wilfully on making films that may not find a distributor.
