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.
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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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In the search for culpability for the tragedy in Ferguson, I mostly blame politicians.
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Every year on your birthday, you get a chance to start new.
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Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence.
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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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'Aren’t you even curious?' he asked. 'A million worlds out there with more wonders than I could tell you in a million years, and you don’t even want to ask a question?'
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In a way, 'Mamma Mia!' was such a left-field thing for me.
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All of us are born for a reason, but all of us don't discover why. Success in life has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.
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I'm glad that Gov. Scott down in Florida accepted ObamaCare, because it will work.
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One of the things I know about my family, my generation, and my ethic background is that we put in work and I'm not just talking about just to eat. You have to think about the civil rights movement, they were putting in work; marching, walking miles and miles, sacrificing, getting on the bus, feeding one another, they had schools, voter registration, they were working! They were hard workers so my advice is to work.
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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.
