John Hurt Quotes
My parents felt that acting was far too insecure. Don't ask me what made them think that painting would be more secure.
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I've got Asperger's syndrome and I'm not a very good people person, so I've always been more comfortable around machinery. Not in a weird way - I don't want to marry my car or anything stupid like that!
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I even have a Harmony Rocket and a Stratocaster with a scalloped neck back in Florida.
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My parents taught me never to judge others based on whom they love, what color their skin is, or their religion.
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When you work with somebody for a long period of time, you develop a shorthand with everything.
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The story of civilization is, in a sense, the story of engineering - that long and arduous struggle to make the forces of nature work for man's good.
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No man can be ideally successful until he has found his place. Like a locomotive he is strong on the track, but weak anywhere else.
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My candidacy is one that fits the district and fits the Mick Mulvaney-Jim DeMint philosophy.
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We do want more, and when it becomes more, we shall still want more. And we shall never cease to demand more until we have received the results of our labor.
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Human experience depends on everything that can influence states of the human brain, ranging from changes in our genome to changes in the global economy.
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There is a saying in Baltimore that crabs may be prepared in fifty ways and that all of them are good.
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I hated my big hair. I always wore it straight.
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All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.
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Violence is a tool of the ignorant.
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If you were an alien who came to our bookstores - or browsed our teen magazines - you'd think that only Earth girls who look like Mila Kunis ever got any action.
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The atmosphere of Catholicism in Korea is quite different to the way it is practised and perceived in Europe or the U.S.
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We all have a stake in ensuring that all students have the schools they deserve and that communities are leading this effort, not being left behind. To do that, we must challenge unchecked charter expansion and the forces driving it.
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Our enemy is not Islam. Islam is not the enemy of America; Americans are not the enemy of Islam. Our real enemy is extremism and radicalism.
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Rational behavior requires theory. Reactive behavior requires only reflex action.
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One drawing demands to become a painting, so I start to work on that, and then the painting might demand something else. Then the painting might say, 'I want a companion, and the companion should be like this,' so I have to find that, either by drawing it myself or locating the image.
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Depression has existed as long as mankind itself, and certainly well before psychiatry, antidepressant medication, or the nation of America itself came into being.
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But my patriotism goes for something beyond what we have. We don't have something that I want to die for - anymore.
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A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever.
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It was nerve-wracking [to unleash 'Life of Pi' to the world]. The first show to the journalists, that was the first one, so I was very uptight. Then I felt okay about the reception because we did a press conference with good and friendly questions, although people looked serious. So really, after the show you went to - the premiere - that reception tells me I think the movie worked, so that was a relief. I started to feel deflated.
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My parents felt that acting was far too insecure. Don't ask me what made them think that painting would be more secure.
