John Hurt Quotes
Acting is an imaginative exercise. It would be odd if you didn't try to identify with the roles you play, but I think I can differentiate between where my imagination is leading me and where I actually am.John Hurt
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We were five kids at home, and my mother and grandmother ensured that we all had a very grounded upbringing in Madras. Even in school, I never used to tell anyone that my dad was an actor.
Mahesh Babu -
You can be an Olympic champion in 9.5 secs, but to be the greatest, there's more to it. It takes a bit of forethought and a lot of mental application.
Daley Thompson -
God is like the sun. When the sun shines, it shines for everyone. God is for everyone.
Ziggy Marley -
The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
Karl Marx -
I like to see myself as a bridge builder, that is me building bridges between people, between races, between cultures, between politics, trying to find common ground.
T. D. Jakes -
When I decided that I might want to do acting for a living - I don't know where it really came from, since there was no school play or any of that - my mom gave me her blessing. I had to get a scholarship - that was the only way I could have gone to drama school.
Gary Oldman
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I was interested in implements of mass destruction - from an academic point of view.
Dan Farmer -
Some people call it the 'Al Jazeera spirit' - courage, re-thinking authority, giving a voice to the voiceless. We have never been favored by the authority. The human being is the center of our editorial policy. We are not a TV station that rushes after stars, big names, press conferences, hand-shake journalism.
Wadah Khanfar -
There was a girl who messaged me and said she was on the verge of taking her life, then 'Battles' came on just in the nick of time.
La'Porsha Renae -
Stronger by weakness, wiser men become.
Edmund Waller -
I don't hide my being Israeli. I say it in every interview. I put out a record with songs in Hebrew. The people who signed me have no connection to Judaism or Israel.
Yael Naim -
It is in revolutionary periods that the culmination of previous trends and the beginning of new ones appear.
C. L. R. James
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I'm not cool - quite the opposite. I'm a real geek.
Rachel Miner -
I don't want to be liked. I want to be respected.
Jack Ma -
I consider myself a fairly ethical individual while I do have a lot of dichotomies within me. We're all victims of our own hypocrisy at times.
T. J. Miller -
Going 3-13 is not acceptable.
Malik Jackson -
Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down within incredible swiftness.
Faith Baldwin -
I hate to travel with stuff.
Manolo Blahnik
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For many, many years, I thought that I wasn't good enough or that I would never be able to create something that could touch other people the way books have touched me. There's nothing better than having a lifelong dream come true.
Marie Rutkoski -
Few people have the imagination for reality.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
Both art and faith are dependent on imagination; both are ventures into the unknown.
Denise Levertov -
A holy life does not live in the closet, but it cannot live without the closet.
Edward McKendree Bounds -
It's different everywhere you go. I'm lucky I'm drawn into people who love and support me. I'm sheltered from that life. I see how all over the world there's so much oppression and pain. I'm living in a bubble.
Nomi Ruiz -
Acting is an imaginative exercise. It would be odd if you didn't try to identify with the roles you play, but I think I can differentiate between where my imagination is leading me and where I actually am.
John Hurt