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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With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.
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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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It is a favourite maxim of mine that history, while it should be scientific in its method, should pursue a practical object. That is, it should not merely gratify the reader's curiosity about the past, but modify his view of the present and his forecast of the future,
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Anyone who is seriously interested in me would usually do a little more homework and realise that the extreme criticisms are almost exclusively ideologically based.
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I never had intimate friends, and the few who came close are in New York. By which I mean they're dead, because that's where I suppose condemned souls go in order not to endure the truth of their past lives.
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The beer tastes better when you win
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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.
