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.
Quotes to Explore
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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 think character is very much a product of where you live, who you are, what is happening in that time of your life, and I'm interested in those pressures, those forces. A political context, a social context, really determines if not who people are then how they treat one another and what they say, how they speak.
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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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The second half of the 20th century was a golden age of molecular biology, and it was one of the golden ages of the history of science. Molecular biology was so successful and made such a powerful alliance with the medical scientists that the two together just flourished. And they continue to flourish.
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My father used to be a fisherman, so it always makes me feel close to him when I am there on the water catching my dinner.
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When it comes to raising civilized kids there are no hard rules, but there are two things on which most parents agree: Boys are generally wilder than girls, and adolescents are wilder than kids of any other age. If you've got an adolescent boy, you're in the sweet spot for trouble.
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It was difficult for me to feel my feelings, so I just buried them. Then I found that acting was a way for me to get them out. But now that I'm a reasonably sane adult, acting is more about my trying to engage other people: Acting is cathartic for the viewer as well.
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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.
