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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All I need is a camera and I'll make things happen.
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'Hurt Village' is based on a real housing project in Memphis, about three minutes away from the Lorraine Hotel where Dr. King was assassinated, so in my work I'm focusing on a very specific area in Memphis. I see 'Hurt Village' as a natural extension of 'The Mountaintop.'
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Making a living is not a career. It might be for an accountant, but it's not for someone who says "I want one thing." The guy who feels that his career hasn't happened yet. The guy who has that kind of hunger, who wants money and fame.
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That weird dark energy - when I was a kid, I didn't know what it was. I just had to 'thrash it out,' as my mother called it. I became quite intolerable, creatively and artistically, with other people. I wanted nothing more than to be part of a group, and yet I couldn't help alienating people.
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Both groups played progressive rock and even though the majority of the music was based on my compositions, the end result was really a group effort, especially in the arrangements. Both groups MAINHORSE and REFUGEE had a different identity, however MAINHORSE had a lead guitarist which made a big difference in the overall sound. We also had much more vocal arrangements in MAINHORSE. But the essence of the music was mine, in both groups.
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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.
