John Hurt Quotes
I'm fascinated by the business of belief, obviously, because it's so ever present with humanity anyway. And, you know, when you have science, which constantly talks of proofs, you have religion, which constantly talks of beliefs and faith and so on.
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I consider myself a blue-collar actor, just chugging away.
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Every hero becomes a bore at last.
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I find my earliest memories covering the anachronistic features of a previous incarnation. Clear recollections came to me of a distant life, a yogi amidst the Himalayan snows. These glimpses of the past, by some dimensionless link, also afforded me a glimpse of the future.
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We are so Post-Modern that we don't realize how Post-Modern we are anymore.
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Katie Holmes is really amazing.
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There's a lot of bad things going on but I didn't do nothing.
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I am not in the business of suppressing books.
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It's very difficult to raise money, especially in the United States, for independent movies.
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I'm definitely not a super great guitarist. Ultimately, I just write a lot of love songs.
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The scientist is motivated primarily by curiosity and a desire for truth.
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If I were governor, and a bill came to my desk that provided for background checks at gun shows, I would sign that.
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A few years ago, there were requests to me, Can we make this? I said that I have no rights. Contact the Hitchcock estate, which won't release it for a remake.
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I don't want to be idealized by a patient because of what I've written.
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A man with a million dollars can be as happy nowadays as though he were rich.
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I have an hourglass shape, and I think it's important to understand your body type and your personality type. Then make whatever is on trend and in fashion work for you.
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The idea that you can live off the grid and just do your own thing is a very American idea - that you should be able to do your own thing, if you want to, if you're willing to pay the price for it. I think the price has gotten higher and higher.
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My song-writing has always been just about my life - usually my worst moments.
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Wanting to feel good is synonymous with wanting to feel God.
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I would sit on the street corners in my hometown of Indianola, Mississippi, and I would play. And, generally, I would start playing gospel songs. People would come by on the street - you live in Time Square, you know how they do it - they would bunch up. And they would always compliment me on gospel tunes, but they would tip me when I played blues.
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15. As in the night when the sun is not present, one sees the light in the moon, the man who is not present in the heart, sees merely the mind.
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I read everything: fiction, history, science, mathematics, biography, travel.
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The decision that has to be made was whether it was material, whether he knew he was lying under oath, whether he did it willfully. I think that's required of any prosecutor who is charged with an investigation of this.
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The only reason I've managed to run this open source project, is that I have learned to delegate even the delegation to other people. (final words of the video).
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I'm fascinated by the business of belief, obviously, because it's so ever present with humanity anyway. And, you know, when you have science, which constantly talks of proofs, you have religion, which constantly talks of beliefs and faith and so on.
