John Hurt Quotes
Things come in a quieter way to me. It's not laziness, and it's not diffidence. I just know how far you have to bend for work. That's important for me.
Quotes to Explore
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There is an incredible love in creating art unless somebody is saying, 'Hey, let's just make money,' because it doesn't work when you do it that way. If you are aiming for that, forget it.
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I loved getting to Chagrin Falls, being by the falls; what a cute place it is.
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I think I'm a critic of corporate power, whether locally or globally. And the term 'globalization' I've never found all that helpful.
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My life and my work are very interlocked. That's partly why I like to keep my private life private.
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I have this kind of mild nice-guy exterior, but inside my heart is like a steel trap.
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Every year on your birthday, you get a chance to start new.
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Everything was in stark and dreadful contrast with the trivial crises and counterfeit emotions of Hollywood, and I returned to England deeply moved and emotionally worn out.
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I am a very loyal man and always keep my promises when I commit to something.
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I don't want to make games for 12-year-olds. I have no interest in that. I haven't been 12 in a long time.
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The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike.
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There are so many different camps about what being gay means. The danger comes when each one is so rigid that it sees itself as the true picture.
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I wish I wasn't so in love, wasn't so interested, in the Internet. I wish I spent less time online and more time outside and in my head. Writing requires solitude and deep, deep daydreaming, and the Internet just kills that - its lure is toward the external; it asks you to flit from place to place.
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Climate change is obviously happening and there is obviously a man-made contribution.
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Brooklyn's good. Brooklyn's funky. Brooklyn's happening.
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In all disputes between conflicting governments, it is our interest not less than our duty to remain strictly neutral.
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The general belief is that communists in the United Nations come only from the Iron Curtain countries, but this isn't so. We must remember that many of the representatives of free countries are members of the local Communist parties. If you add them all up, you will see they have an amazing degree of control.
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I haven't had an orthodox career, and I've wanted more than anything to have your respect. The first time I didn't feel it, but this time I feel it, and I can't deny the fact that you like me, right now, you like me!
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Life is something to do when you can't get to sleep.
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John Kerry had a very vivid imagination as a young person. I mean, he actually did go and take his bicycle from Norway to go camp in Sherwood Forest to be around the ghost of Robin Hood.
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I do probably 80 or 90 per cent of the cooking at home.
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I cannot stop them. This is their affection and love and we live for this. And I hope that this love and affection remains with us so that we are inspired to work more and be able to satisfy their desires and expectations.
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Most of the things we buy are wants. And we call them needs, but they're wants.
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Things come in a quieter way to me. It's not laziness, and it's not diffidence. I just know how far you have to bend for work. That's important for me.
