John Hurt Quotes
I turn up in Los Angeles every now and then, so I can get some big money films in order to finance my smaller money films.
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The two most important things in my life were academics and sports. I had to do my schoolwork first.
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Some of the furor that surrounded a Harry Potter publication was fun.
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I learned that the only way you are going to get anywhere in life is to work hard at it. Whether you're a musician, a writer, an athlete or a businessman, there is no getting around it. If you do, you'll win - if you don't, you won't.
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L.A. makes you feel ugly.
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From a spectator point of view, Test cricket is not important; people hardly watch Test cricket. But as a player, Tests are the real thing. You have to concentrate for five days. It's a lot of time, and not easy to do it day in and day out. If people have played 70-100 Tests, it's a lot of cricket, a lot of concentration and dedication.
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The most irresistible charm of youth is its bubbling enthusiasm. Youth sees no darkness ahead - no defile that has no outlet - it forgets that there is such a thing as failure in the world and believes that mankind has been waiting all these centuries for him to come and be the liberator of truth and energy and beauty.
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All things must come to the soul from its roots, from where it is planted.
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I really didn't intend to be a musician when I left Japan.
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When you're making a pilot, what you're mostly thinking is, 'Please let this be a real job, please.'
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Most men say they can cook pasta, but I think you should find a little bit of an unusual angle on your pasta and make that your signature dish.
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The voters in District 8 shared our vision that Washington is broken, and we're going to go up there and fix it.
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Ordinarily if an actor gets chosen for the lead in a film, he or she has already built up a repertoire, and everyone knows what he or she is capable of.
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I didn't really make up my mind to be an actor until I did 'The Hitcher' with Rutger Hauer. I was about 17 or 18 when I did that, by which point I'd probably done a dozen or more movies or TV things, but 'The Hitcher' was the experience that made me want to study and commit and learn how to do this for my life.
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You know, my mum's always encouraged me and never made my gender an issue, I guess. She brought me up to believe in equality, as opposed to feminism or sexism – so it just meant that my gender was not relevant to what I was capable of achieving.
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I think as a filmmaker one should make all kinds of films. It is not that one should make only one kind of film. I love to see romantic films; I loved watching 'Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge,' 'Kuch Kuch Hota Hai.' If I make such films, I will make it with my yardstick, according to my parameters.
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I was able to work with the best musicians in Kansas City starting when I was really young.
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By my definition, prayer is consciously hanging out with God. Being with God in a deliberate way.
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That metre itself forms an essential part of all true poetry is a principle which not even the assertions of an Aristotle or the pronouncements of a Plato can disestablish.
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The way for newspapers to meet the competition of radio and television is simply to get out better papers.
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When I started writing 'Luck in the Shadows,' I just wanted to create an adventure story.
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The hero is valorous because he stands up to every threat directed against his values. Heroism requires value conflict.
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I started out in graduate school to be a fiction writer. I thought I wanted to write short stories. I started writing poems at that point only because a friend of mine dared me to write a poem. And I took the dare because I was convinced that I couldn't write a good poem... And then it actually wasn't so bad.
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I'm really not a TV junkie... OK, I kind of am a TV junkie, but I'm much more of a movie junkie - my junk food is romantic comedies I've seen a million times.
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I turn up in Los Angeles every now and then, so I can get some big money films in order to finance my smaller money films.
