John Hurt Quotes

The things that I've enjoyed most are not really science fiction. They are not much fun to make because there are so many toys involved. They are fun for directors who like toys, like Ridley Scott, but they are not a lot of fun to make. A lot of hanging around, changing this and that.

John Hurt

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• But... watching Steven Barnes taught me to treat my life like an art form.

  

  Larry Niven
  • Life
  • Art
  • My Life

• Maybe one day music will just be music, and there won't be these categories; it'll just be different shades of music.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Music
  • Different
  • Day

• I said yes, which turned out to be the right answer.

  

  Pat Sajak
  • Right
  • Said
  • Yes

• You can't talk of the dangers of snake poisoning and not mention snakes.

  

  C. Everett Koop
  • You
  • Talk
  • Snake

• I'm always looking for that sense of fun and adventure and even unlikeability. I don't want to be the obvious leading lady. I have the most fun playing these girls who are a little damaged and maybe a little insecure and trying to overcompensate for it.

  

  Becki Newton
  • Trying
  • Fun
  • Adventure

• Somebody said they threw their copy of Dungeons and Dragons into the fire, and it screamed. It's a game! The magic spells in it are as real as the gold. Try retiring on that stuff.

  

  Gary Gygax
  • Real
  • Game
  • Fire

• My family moved from California to New Jersey in the beginning of my sophomore year of high school. I will never forget the first day in a new school, walking into the cafeteria during lunch and not knowing a single soul. I didn't feel confident enough to share a seat at just anyone's table.

  

  Camille Guaty
  • Family
  • School
  • High

• I would definitely like to start a family because it's the most important thing in the world and what you should take care of, along with your friends and the people you love.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • World
  • Family
  • Love

• Archery requires very sensitive muscles.

  

  Im Dong-Hyun
  • Very
  • Sensitive
  • Muscles

• The CIA now assesses that four nations - Iraq, North Korea, Russia and, to the surprise of some specialists, France - have undeclared samples of the smallpox virus.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Now
  • Surprise
  • France

• A woman caring for her children; a woman striving to excel in the private sector; a woman partnering with her neighbors to make their street safer; a woman running for office to improve her country - they all have something to offer, and the more our societies empower women, the more we receive in return.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • Women
  • Country
  • Children

• I've always had a dream of owning a restaurant.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Dream
  • Always
  • Restaurant

• When you go all over the world for work, your dream vacation is your bedroom.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • World
  • Work
  • Dream

• People tried to make me something that I wasn't at the beginning of my career.

  

  Patricia Kaas
  • People
  • Career
  • Me

• Today, only 2 percent of the people know the name of someone serving in uniform. That means 2 percent of your listeners can actually conjure up the image of someone wearing the uniform of the military of the United States.

  

  Oliver North
  • People
  • Up
  • Today

• I'm trying to be a singer, not a civil rights leader.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Trying
  • Leader
  • Civil Rights

• I'm not an ambitious person, there is no ambition in my life. I have a mission in my life. And my mission is to serve my country. And when I am working for my state, it means I am working for my country, or my nation.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Life
  • Country
  • My Life

• Robots of the world, you are ordered to exterminate the human race. Do not spare the men. Do not spare the women. Preserve only the factories, railroads, machines, mines, and raw materials. Destroy everything else. Then return to work. Work must not cease.

  

  Karel Capek
  • World
  • Work
  • Men

• Man, it's hard to beat having gotten to play Superman. But where do you go from there? Aren't careers supposed to culminate in a role like that? And because I'm a big fat geek, as long as there's stuff I'm excited about - and isn't that really the definition of geek? - there'll always be roles I'd love to play.

  

  Yuri Lowenthal
  • Play
  • Like
  • Careers

• No person can maximize the American Dream on the minimum wage.

  

  Benjamin Todd Jealous
  • American
  • Dream

• Acting was always something deep down I knew I wanted to do. It wasn't, like, a normal profession to want to pursue, and I knew that.

  

  John DeLuca
  • Deep

• Not only do I never lie, I never respond to lies, no matter how vicious, no matter how hurtful.

  

  Paula Abdul
  • Lies

• The things that I've enjoyed most are not really science fiction. They are not much fun to make because there are so many toys involved. They are fun for directors who like toys, like Ridley Scott, but they are not a lot of fun to make. A lot of hanging around, changing this and that.

  

  John Hurt
  • Fun
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