John Hurt Quotes
Punk recognised the fact that the establishment had no room. There's no point in saying you've got the establishment wrong because they hadn't got the establishment wrong, they'd got it absolutely dead on.
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As a kid growing up - I can see now - it didn't matter what I did, as long as it was something I could be really good at. Cycling just happened to be the opportunity that came along.
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I don't study; I create.
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Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other.
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Just as it had taken centuries to determine the true nature of the universe, so also the search for the beginning of human life proceeded well into the 20th century.
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I was never a practicing Muslim. But I do consider myself a Muslim.
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You have to turn the noise off a little bit. Fortunately, I'm not really on social media. I've been able to live in a bit of a black hole.
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I love reading; I really enjoy it. I read books quite fast, which kind of annoys me, but I like it at the same time because I can read a book in a day.
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I want to play real characters rather than young leads in very plotty things. I want variety.
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As a child I wanted to be a professional athlete or lawyer.
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I just don't stop working.
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The first 'Polly and the Pirates' is about a prim and proper girl who gets kidnapped out of her comfy boarding school by a bunch of pirates that think she's the daughter of their long lost queen. In the course of the adventure, she discovers she has a natural penchant for swashbuckling, despite her sheltered childhood.
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You can no longer just have a magazine that shows you this glossy impervious image of women - in the studio, artificial, wearing a push-up bra.
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I must be the only person in 'Strictly' history who's actually put on weight during rehearsals.
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I just consider myself slightly left-of-center. I'm not your average bear. I - what's the word? I'm not - normal.
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The writer's object is - or should be - to hold the reader's attention.
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Dark City is such an underrated film.
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I loved: and in the morning sky, A magic castle upward grew!
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No autocracy can lead people to believe that they are living in harmony and happiness.
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I was born with music inside me. That's the only explanation I know of, since none of my relatives could sing or play an instrument. Music was one of my parts. Like my ribs, my kidneys, my liver, my heart. Like my blood. It was a force already within me when I arrived on the scene. It was a necessity for me - like food or water.
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There is nothing as dead and as damned as an important thing. The things that really matter are casual, insignificant little things.
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It's a good harsh reality, because my family keeps me very grounded.
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I believe marriage should be between one man and one woman. That's my view, and that'll be the view of our state because I wouldn't sign a bill that - like the one that was in New York.
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It's impossible to change the social without changing the personal - you have to put your money where your mouth is. And if you're not making those challenges at home, it's unlikely you'll make them in a larger setting.
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Punk recognised the fact that the establishment had no room. There's no point in saying you've got the establishment wrong because they hadn't got the establishment wrong, they'd got it absolutely dead on.
