John Hurt Quotes
'The Naked Civil Servant' was as important for me as 'Easy Rider' was for Jack Nicholson. No question.
Quotes to Explore
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The virtues of the blockchain is that it would be that it's peer-to-peer settlement - no centralized settlement, no manipulation... And most importantly, there's nothing to capture. It's consensus based. It's stateless.
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The latest revelation - from no Mount Sinai, Sermon on the Mount or Bo tree - is the outcry of mute things themselves that we must heed by curbing our powers over creation, lest we perish together on a wasteland of what that creation once was.
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My manager's biggest dream is for me to be on Letterman. She says, 'Oh, Maggie, will you promise me you'll be on 'Letterman?' What can I say? I just tell her I can't promise, but I'll try my best.
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If there were only one truth, you couldn't paint a hundred canvases on the same theme.
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I drive a car, like an adult. Not brilliantly. I'm not great.
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Violence would be a huge gift to those who want a divided Lebanon.
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I can't imagine playing a boring gig. Like, a boring audience without reaction, I will play against them.
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I don't ever want anything to come in the way of me truthfully telling a story.
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An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.
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I love gardening, and I love cooking. I love things like that. I love creating things.
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I was always used to being centre stage - something that had its good and bad points.
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Everyone is capable of everything.
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.
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Education promotes equality and lifts people out of poverty. It teaches children how to become good citizens. Education is not just for a privileged few, it is for everyone. It is a fundamental human right.
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I've always wanted to do charity stuff. I'm such a nurturer and love taking care of people.
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I was running for mayor of Syracuse - the first woman to run for mayor in our city, or in New York, and one of the first in the United States. I was known for my strong conservation plank. In 1969, the term 'conservation' was hardly on the tip of every citizen's tongue.
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I think there's a lot to be said for keeping your own counsel.
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I read an article that said one in five Americans thinks Elvis is alive. I want to find those morons and get them registered to vote for me.
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Through imagination, thanks to the subtleties of the irreality function, we re-enter the world of confidence, the world of the confident being, which is the proper world for reverie.
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I kind of cherish at least the idea of Midwestern candor and openness. But I couldn't live there.
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It is those who concentrates on but one thing at a time who advance in this world. The great man or woman is the one who never steps outside his or her specialty or foolishly dissipates his or her individuality.
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I was listening to a lot of hip hop, music like Public Enemy that was about raising consciousness, and I realised I could feed that directly into my work, using images in a way that was a bit like sampling - taking images from diverse places, exploring the contradictions without trying to hide the seams.
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'The Naked Civil Servant' was as important for me as 'Easy Rider' was for Jack Nicholson. No question.
