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
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• 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
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• God is like the sun. When the sun shines, it shines for everyone. God is for everyone.

  

  Ziggy Marley
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• The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.

  

  Karl Marx
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• 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
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• 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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• You might think the thinner version of yourself is going to be the most positive or confident, but that's not how it is for me. When I'm over 200 pounds, that's when I'm the most confident version of myself.

  

  Garrett Hedlund
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• I was interested in implements of mass destruction - from an academic point of view.

  

  Dan Farmer
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  • View
  • Point Of View

• 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
  • People
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• 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
  • Life
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• Stronger by weakness, wiser men become.

  

  Edmund Waller
  • Men
  • Stronger
  • Weakness

• 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
  • People
  • Connection
  • Hide

• I have a chart for success at school because it gave me a great deal of pleasure. It opened my mind to the world. I learned to read.

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
  • World
  • Great
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• If you are going to make a change, don't go halfway. Make it with conviction and stick with your new idea. Ignore the scoffers. Remember, it is a law of nature that if something is different you're going to be taunted, jeered, and told the world is flat. Let the doubters fall off the edge.

  

  Gary McCord
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• I don't like cooking just for myself; I enjoy feeding other people, particularly outdoors.

  

  Zac Brown Band
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  • Myself
  • Enjoy

• 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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• Let me make this clear: it is our duty to adopt a policy barring the wearing of niqabs in these public buildings.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Me
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• I'm not cool - quite the opposite. I'm a real geek.

  

  Rachel Miner
  • Real
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• I wish more LPs would blog to help VCs and entrepreneurs understand them better.

  

  Brad Feld
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• If somebody says to you, 'MTV,' you think of Mick Jagger on a phone screaming at that phone: 'I want my MTV.' That, to me, was always the epitome of great advertising.

  

  George Lois
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• I do have to take care of myself, not only because I'm in the movies, just for mental health reasons. I exercise for me. You know, maybe it would be nice to not have to do that in order to feel good, but I do. I feel like I have to, to feel good. To clear my head and all of that, so.

  

  Annette Bening
  • Good
  • Nice
  • Health

• The subscription model of buying music is bankrupt. I think you could make available the Second Coming in a subscription model and it might not be successful.

  

  Steve Jobs
  • Bankrupt
  • Subscription model

• If you give Chip a boundary, he's going to break that boundary. If you give him a rule, he's not going to follow it. And if you tell him, 'You can't go over this line,' he's going to put his toe over it.

  

  Joanna Gaines

• 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
  • Imagination
  • Exercise