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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I am an historian, I am not a believer, but I must confess as a historian that this penniless preacher from Nazareth is irrevocably the very center of history. Jesus Christ is easily the most dominant figure in all history.
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...the time to hesitate is through no time to wallowin the mire Try now we can only lose and our love become a funeral pyre...
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You cannot be happy with your family while being personally unhappy with your work. It's a Catch-22 kind of thing.
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Everybody is going to die, so people are enthralled by the possibility that they don't have to completely die, that there is something that comes afterward. It's like if you're going to France for the summer, you're going to read up on it. Everyone just wants to know where they're going, or if they're going anywhere.
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Because of the friends I have known, the honorable people I have met, I know I am no solitary hero of unique causes. I know now that when I die, I will live on. That which is important will live on. This is my Legacy; and by the grace of the gods, I am not alone.
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As Beckett said, it's not enough to die, one has to be forgotten as well.
