John Hurt Quotes
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The thing about markets, and I think the thing people don't understand about that, is markets are not kind, but they're very efficient. So when the marketplace determines an inefficiency in the system, it corrects that, and a market system that's left alone will reward good behavior and punish bad behavior.
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My father's a Southern Baptist minister. I wasn't lighting cars on fire; I just wasn't.
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The ideal American type is perfectly expressed by the Protestant, individualist, anti-conformist, and this is the type that is in the process of disappearing. In reality there are few left.
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I never said most of the things I said.
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The first song I wrote was called 'Here I Go Falling In Love' I wrote it in the sixth grade.
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And still I'm not completely happy with my skating. I always feel I can do more and climb higher.
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When you're taking chances, you know it's not going to please everybody.
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People's lives have to change as a result of this legislation.
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People either think I'm this totally savage, idiot-savant genius guy who's lucked out or they think I'm a super-manipulative crafty businessman, this kind of MBA guy who's spotted a gap in the market and knows how to create a product for it. It's flattering, but I've not got that much of a gameplan.
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Oh, filmmakers, please don't take my soft book and turn it into a horror, or take my horror and make it soft.
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I don't really like pants, man. I like tights. I'm not really a pants person. I choose not to wear pants.
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Writing is turning one's worst moments into money.
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Today, our economy is divided: fifty percent is the public economy and fifty percent is the private economy that includes small companies employing from 4 to 200 workers.
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With 'California,' editors were reading it, and fast, and others were emailing my agent to request it. Ultimately, there were a few editors interested in the book, and it sold at auction about two weeks after the submission process started. I couldn't believe it!
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It's hard to connect to these superheroes that are completely out of this world. But Spider-Man is first and foremost Peter Parker, who we can all relate to.
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A government is invigorated when each of us is willing to participate in shaping the future of this nation.
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And everybody got they opinionsBut they ain't got no money
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What is Juche the subject in our Party's ideological work? What are we doing? We are not engaged in any other country's revolution, but precisely in the Korean revolution. This, the Korean revolution, constitutes Juche in the ideological work of our Party. Therefore, all ideological work must be subordinated to the interests of the Korean revolution.
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I know that many artists feel that they are frauds - that's part of the pleasure of creativity.
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Factors such as timing, luck, and destiny have a bearing on success. But success and failure are good teachers. Failure means something better is waiting for you. But I will allow myself to get upset at failure only if I know I have not given it my all.
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I'm not gonna play a part that doesn't instill some kind of fear in me. If I read a part, and suddenly, I'm thinking halfway through, 'I'm not sure I could get away with this,' I think of everything I can think of to keep me from doing it, that's the one I should do.
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There seems to be a general impression that to be known as normal in Hollywood is akin to being labeled as rare animal in a zoo.
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I love the uilleann pipes and listen to Ronan Browne who's an uilleann piper.
