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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Professor Obama has at least talked to us like we're adults.
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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'm not interested in serial dating; I'd honestly rather be single.
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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've been sort of spoiled on the TV end because HBO feels like a small institution making independent movies. There's respect for the director's contribution in a way that mainstream television doesn't really reflect, I don't think.
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Truth is truth, though from an enemy, and spoken in malice.
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It was disconcerting that being in love felt lonelier than lonelines.
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In 1922, I got a small stipend from the Swedish-American Foundation and went to Cambridge, England, for a few months and thereafter to Harvard University. In the summer, Cambridge was rather empty, but I am grateful for many pleasant talks about economics with Austin Robinson who, in the summer of 1922, seemed to be about as lonely as I was.
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I sometimes think that unions don't understand that we live in a free society, and people have the right to not select union representation if they don't want it.
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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.
