John Hurt Quotes
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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You can have the greatest player in terms of mastering an instrument and you could be yawning your head off when you hear them. So, it's not what you do, but the way you're doing it and in the end that's all that we have.
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I consider music to be storytelling, melody and rhythm. A lot of hip-hop has broken music down. There are no instruments and no songwriting. So you're left with just storytelling and rhythm. And the storytelling can be so braggadocious, you're just left with rhythm.
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It's not possible to be perfect - you can always do something better. I'm never proud of what I've done. Sometimes, I'm not ashamed.
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It's something you dream about, working in Scotland, working in Glasgow, walking down the same streets I used to walk down when I was a drama student, daydreaming about being in an American TV show or doing something that was well known. I guess I sort of pinch myself.
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I have not fully had the opportunity to evaluate the impact of cameras in the courtroom.
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I have accumulated so many experiences, so much, that I want to be able to realize so many things. This is why I have basically given up most of my positions.
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Nobody likes a child to die or losing an election.
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I had what AA calls 'a convincer' – which made me realize that I couldn't do it any more. I went out drinking for about 70 hours here in London. At the end I knew I was done.
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Over my career, I've had to do a lot of shows that involve stunts, and I so enjoy stunts.
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I have this first album that sells more than 100,000 copies in its first week, debuts at number two, goes gold, the single goes platinum, we're doing Madison Square Garden.
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I'd like to give people leaden boots in galleries, so they'd be a bit slower in front of my paintings. And that's because I spend so much time looking at them. I can look at them a long, long time without getting bored. I disappear.
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It was great being together as a band, but much more difficult being brothers than it was being in a band.
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It is easier for a man to be loyal to his club than to his planet; the bylaws are shorter, and he is personally acquainted with the other members.
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I definitely like performing to a crowd that's there to see a female hero.
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Beware how you take away hope from another human being.
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There is no buzz like performing for a live audience.
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The U.S. healthcare system is probably the most interesting large group of companies that are heading for major problems that we've seen in a long, long time.
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The best way to bring people in and have them empathize with others is through storytelling.
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But I have had the luxury of working on good films with great people.
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In life, all good things come hard, but wisdom is the hardest to come by.
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I appeal to you, my friends, as mothers: are you willing to enslave your children? You stare back with horror and indignation at such questions. But why, if slavery is not wrong to those upon whom it is imposed?
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Human beings are very good at adapting to what happens.
