John Hurt Quotes
It's an immensely competitive business, and I can tell you the older you get, the parts are fewer, and the people who are proven performers are greater.
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It's just amazing that there are so many prejudices even now.
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If I had a big brother who was a year older than me or something, I probably wouldn't have ended up being a filmmaker.
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People want to see a movie that casts a mature woman across from a mature man.
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'Envy' was a bit of a challenge for me. It was smooth.
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I have always been driven; I've always wanted to be published, and I wanted to make that happen, so I worked very hard. 'Perfectionist' would be a word to describe me.
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Nearly everything you do is of no importance, but it is important that you do it.
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I'm a British intern going in. I'm hoping that John will just kind of tackle it from who this person is and what she's about rather than trying to go in on her culture. We need to move a step forward than that.
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I hate ugliness. You know I'm allergic to ugliness.
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Whatever they did for democracy, the U.S. interventions in the Middle East and the vaunted Arab Spring have proved to be pure hell for Arab Christians.
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I'll tell you something: my dad was a nuclear engineer and he was really bright, and I've always said that because of negotiating at such a young age with my dad, it was really such a gift because I could then negotiate with very difficult personalities - and not end up being the scapegoat. I learned to really pick and choose my battles.
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Still, records are documents of a period of time. Most records are documents of two or three years, and I just approached it as a record I was doing over a 20-year period of time.
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I'm a self-taught guitarist, but I have a classical music background.
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I believe there is little to gain by exchanging opinions with other artists concerning either the ideology of art or technical methods.
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I said I wanted to strap guns on an El Camino. When I brought it up at a meeting, they said great. I realized there's no adult in the room.
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I write a book a year while creating TV and film projects. And being a writer isn't just writing: I have to chase down paychecks and manage foreign tax payments. I maintain a vibrant relationship with readers and bloggers. And when it comes to Hollywood, I typically have to have fifteen business meetings in the hopes that one leads to a project.
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Everything you'll ever need to know is within you; the secrets of the universe are imprinted on the cells of your body.
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Don't try to dress like me or wear your hair like mine. Find your own style.
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One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.
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Great trouble breeds great art, I think.
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I've written some standalone novels, but a book series allows fans in. There's much more intense involvement.
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People copy examples and then they wonder what is the trouble. They look at examples and without theory they learn nothing.
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People have different interpretations of my work, and I like that flexibility and openness.
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All my life, I have been a celebrant of Halloween. For me, it is the most important day of the year, the turning point in the old pagan calendar.
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It's an immensely competitive business, and I can tell you the older you get, the parts are fewer, and the people who are proven performers are greater.
