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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I like to focus on making the music sound simple and true, and very lush and full. I think music should take you to somewhere else where you have the space to contemplate or exercise your imagination. All the while you should be feeling real good, like when you have a delicious and decadent meal, macaroni and cheese or foie gras.
Alice Smith -
Delight in splendor is No more than happiness with little: for both Have their appeal.
Euripides -
What is art? Prostitution.
Charles Baudelaire -
Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don't be afraid.
Frederick Buechner -
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