John Hurt Quotes
Parents are the worst teachers, if they are good at it and you're not. My father thought I was the densest offspring he could have produced.
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CNN is getting smarter, and you can feel it in the stories, you can feel it in the depth with which they're covered, the kinds of people in terms of guests who are brought on air, the way in which issues are discussed.
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The fact is that people are good, Give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be secure in their feelings and their behavior.
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A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity has to his power of influencing conduct.
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I like 'The Nightly Show.' People ask me what it is, and I say, 'If you're watching 'The Daily Show,' and it feels like it's getting a little darker, you're probably watching 'The Nightly Show.''
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Because I was a dancer, I started going to auditions for musical theater, which forced me to sing.
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On paper I would be a rather bold individual in our culture.
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A positive attitude causes a chain reaction of positive thoughts, events and outcomes. It is a catalyst and it sparks extraordinary results.
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Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.
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My first name, with the rare two-r spelling, came from a sportswriter named Garry Schumacher. My parents didn't know him personally, but my mother liked the spelling.
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The surface is all you get of me.
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Maybe if I'd had more direct contact with death, I wouldn't find it so fascinating and I wouldn't write about it so much.
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When people are nervous, some people move around. Some people scratch their leg.
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When I had my first child, I started to try and make fresh food for him daily, and I became frustrated with the amount of work - and time - involved in making baby food at home.
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I want to be a mayor who helped, really helped.
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Maybe I'm just purely lucky. If I've come up against obstacles I've always found another way around it.
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Let's face it: pop music in its myriad permutations will always be sexually presumptuous, racially controversial and, frequently, politically charged.
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I've got that Beethoven energy, that Stravinsky energy. And it's all a gift from the Creator.
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I have no desire to enter politics. Because I am not suited for that.
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A lot of people told me that I'm committing musical suicide with my sound.
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I don't listen to a lot of radio today. It's not really music to me.
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Create your own visual style... let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.
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The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery.
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Everyone was saying computers were going to be the future of art; everyone had to do something in this medium. And it was almost some sort of rebellion that I wanted to do these small, intimate drawings.
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Parents are the worst teachers, if they are good at it and you're not. My father thought I was the densest offspring he could have produced.
