John Hurt Quotes
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I don't think Cheney started off in 2000 with a burning desire to become vice-president. I think the prospect gradually became more appealing, and he goosed the process.
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I am very lucky to be surrounded and guided by an incredible support team comprised of my family and agents.
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Providence was well aware what lay ahead for me, and my Capuchin training was to prepare me for it.
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My first car was an '84 Ford Taurus. It caught on fire from me trying to change the fuel pump, so that wasn't good at all. Dried leaves on the ground while I was trying to change the fuel pump. Don't do that. Do it on concrete.
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I never really learned photography.
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I came here to tell you the truth, the good, the bad and the ugly.
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I kept trying to write these books that were sort of outside of my realm, and I kept failing.
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I think of myself as a producer who tries to bring the best out of everyone, whether that be an artist, songwriter or a publicist.
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I and life: The case was settled chivalrously. The opponents parted without having made up.
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They got word that the Japanese planes were coming back, so we sunk her ourselves so the Japanese wouldn't get it. We didn't want the Japanese to get it intact.
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Together, Amazon and I are giving readers what they want - inexpensive, professional ebooks.
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I learned not to depend on other people. I needed support, but it's you who has to go out and deliver.
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Every once in a while I feel the tremendous force of the novel. But it does not stay with me.
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I write novels and other things.
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There's this Method Man album called 'Tical.' It's his first album. I would just listen to that every day, because the album feels like, if it were a film, it would be black and white. It feels like there's a war percolating throughout the album itself. It's dark, and it has a nice forward pace to it.
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I just think old old movies, they make you concentrate and pay attention so much more. They feel so warm. A lot of modern digital videotape, it's just too bright. Don't know why, it's not warm.
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A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them.
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In the end, abortion is an issue of fundamental human rights. To force women to undergo pregnancy and childbirth against their will is to deprive them of the right to make basic decisions about their lives and well-being, and to give that power to the state.
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Very often, gleams of light come in a few minutes' sleeplessness, in a second perhaps; you must fix them. To entrust them to the relaxed brain is like writing on water; there is every chance that on the morrow there will be no slightest trace left of any happening.
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'Comic book' has come to mean a specific genre, not a story form, in people's minds. So someone will call 'Die Hard' a 'comic-book movie,' when it has nothing to do with comic books. I'd rather have comics be the vehicle by which stories are told.
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You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now.
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I started a French degree at university, but packed it in when I realised I really wanted to be an actor.
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As Beckett said, it's not enough to die, one has to be forgotten as well.
