John Hurt Quotes
Ultimately, the film industry has always pushed out its biggies, and I don't have a problem with that. I just wish that we'd spend more time nurturing the smaller ones.
Quotes to Explore
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The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations.
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I'm a mother of three. I don't really have the time to put very elaborate outfits together, so I keep it casual but dress it up with shoes, a bag, and jewellery.
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It's very hard to teach someone how to write a song if to begin with there's no creative crop to harvest.
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I'm excited that I get to do what I love, and I'm benefiting through projects that speak to me.
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Rarely do we stop and consider whether the most prestigious of institutions is always in our best interest.
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Bill Cosby, you know, he's a delightful guy.
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To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.
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If I can just be thought of as Omari Hardwick who had a really, really solid career, and whose work is appreciated in its own right, I think that would be a great legacy to leave behind.
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A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years.
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I love a mask. It's why I've got a thing about good writing. When you're acting, you're going into someone else's work. You're behind his words; it's not you.
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It would have been fun to have played Tim Robbins' role in Bull Durham.
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Back in the '70s - I remember the '70s: we were told there was global cooling. And everyone was told global cooling was a really big problem. And then that faded.
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Every time you pass a law, it is a little bite out of freedom.
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Our obsession with speed, with cramming more and more into every minute, means that we race through life instead of actually living it. Our health, diet and relationships suffer. We make mistakes at work. We struggle to relax, to enjoy the moment, even to get a decent night's sleep.
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When people get things for free, they tend to not take them as seriously.
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This person they make me out to be irritates the hell out of me as well.
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Sometimes, I'm very embarrassed.
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People don't slip. Time catches up with them.
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An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else's.
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One of life’s joys was to have friends who gave you reality checks...who would call you on your crap before it rose so high you drowned in it.
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The philosophy of love and peace strangely overlooked who was in possession of the guns. There had been love and peace for some time on the continent of Africa because for all this time black men had been captivated by the doctrines of Christianity. It took them centuries to realize its contradictions. ... perhaps there was no greater crime as yet than all the lies Western civilization had told in the name of Jesus Christ.
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I see Vostok-6 quite often in the centre for cosmonaut training. And every time I pass it by, I stroke it and say, 'My lovely one, my best and most beautiful friend, my best and most beautiful man.'
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The growth of modern constitutional government compels for its successful practice the exercise of reason and considerate judgment by the individual citizens who constitute the electorate.
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Ultimately, the film industry has always pushed out its biggies, and I don't have a problem with that. I just wish that we'd spend more time nurturing the smaller ones.
