John Hurt Quotes
The difference between anger and deep remorse - remorse is much fatter. It's a deeper feeling altogether. Anger is too easy an escape for my money.
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I feel quite excited about the possibility of working on multiple albums. There's something really iconic about having a catalog featuring a lot of albums, and I'd love to have that legacy.
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There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy.
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Economic growth and human development need to go hand in hand. Human values need to be advocated vigorously.
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Yes, sometimes I think that all my writing is nothing more than the compensatory work of a frustrated painter.
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The '90s are really the 'Sex and the City' woman, and I think, right now, the new contemporary woman is the 'Lipstick Jungle' woman.
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When I went to college, I discovered the Sega console, and 'Sonic the Hedgehog' became very dear to me.
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As I get older, I find that wearing bright colors cheers me up.
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The advantage is I have my family with me all the time. When your daughter takes her first steps or says her first words and your son is going through potty training, I'm not missing any of those things.
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On a ship, everything is enclosed: the people are right on top of each other and can't get up and walk away.
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The voters in District 8 shared our vision that Washington is broken, and we're going to go up there and fix it.
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The thing about Iceland is that we are trapped there anyway, all of us. We have been trapped there for thousands of years.
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I didn't actually begin professionally acting until I was 30.
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It is so tempting to try the most difficult thing possible.
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French people are never happy with what they have. They're always complaining. They're happy when they're complaining.
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My taste in music and entertainment is quite eclectic.
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I like other people's kids and being able to give them back when I want to.
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I think that we have to do our job well, investigate thoroughly and then describe very honestly what we see to the Security Council. And some of the things might please people there and other things may not please the people.
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I worked with James Orange and Hosea Williams as a teenager, and he's portrayed in the movie by Wendell Pierce. So, for me to be able to come in, 20 years after working with them as a teenager, and to portray Reverend James Orange in 'Selma' is mind-blowing.
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Marriage equality is a hustler's feeding frenzy of gold-diggers. I campaigned for marriage equality in Maryland because I believe we should have the right to it, but I personally don't want to get married. I don't want to imitate the traditions of heterosexual people. I hate weddings: they make me uneasy.
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Take time to enjoy the flight - read a good book, watch a film, catch up on emails and sleep.
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I disagreed with Carnegie's ideas on how to best to distribute his wealth. I spent mine! Spending creates more wealth for everybody.
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There's so many people doing interesting things with the Internet and technology, there could be so many ways of making music and listening to it.
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I've always had a desire to live on the outside. That's where I'm most comfortable.
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The difference between anger and deep remorse - remorse is much fatter. It's a deeper feeling altogether. Anger is too easy an escape for my money.
