John Hurt Quotes
I am not an enormous believer in research being the be-all and end-all. I get suspicious when I read about actors spending six months in a clinic, say, in order to play someone who is sick.

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I even have a Harmony Rocket and a Stratocaster with a scalloped neck back in Florida.
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The way I like to work is to attach personal experiences to what I'm doing, so it helps tremendously if I can write my own play under what the writer has written.
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The great thing about writing is that it has to work without that invisible layer of the reader's added knowledge.
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Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.
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The moral argument is that we give big business a huge tax break, and why do we do it? To get their jobs.
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Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
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I've discovered that I value simplicity above all in dressing. I don't like anything I wear to be too complicated or fussy.
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Forty percent of my portfolio is in the U.S. In the rest of the world, most of the places I invest in or invested in are Brazil, Russia, Germany with a little bit of Turkey, China, India, France and Israel sprinkled in there.
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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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Jesus' own witness of sacrificial love and forgiveness, and his work to heal the sick and care for those in need, represent God's ways and vision for us.
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That's what happens in a good horror movie: there are always metaphors of greater subjects like humanity and empathy and compassion. It's not about the action and scary moments: You really care about these characters because they're mirrors of our own reflections.
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You can hit as many revolutions as you want, but women are always going to wear uncomfortable shoes that look good.
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There is no bigger aphrodisiac than power.
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I do sometimes strongly hope that in a past life, my most recent life before this, I was absolutely horrible, evil, hideous. Because otherwise - well, hell, to even things up next time around, I'm going to have to pay for this one, am I not?
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We must restrict the anonymity behind which people hide to commit crimes. As citizens, we have a right to privacy. We have no such right to anonymity.
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They're trying to tell us that we're not right, so we have to buy their products. The number one cause of mental illness is not knowing who you are and you can't know who you are if you don't spend time honoring yourself, and living in the present.
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White racial grievance enjoys automatic credibility, and even when disproven, it is never disqualifying of its bearers.
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It's weird to me to see how different everyone's opinion of beauty is.
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Sometimes I gotta look in the mirror and say, 'Hey, they're still saying you're too fat, but you're here! They gotta take it or leave it.' And in most cases, if they leave it, it's all good because they don't need to be in my space anyway.
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Children need parameters, know what's right or wrong.
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I'm sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect.
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President Reagan stood for conservative principles in a way that brought people together.
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I am not an enormous believer in research being the be-all and end-all. I get suspicious when I read about actors spending six months in a clinic, say, in order to play someone who is sick.