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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I love when you aren't accountable to anybody or anything, and you can just be wherever you are.
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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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We need new energy back in Washington.
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It's pretty well known that the CIA has been installing friendly dictators around the world for years.
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Marriage of attraction is a gamble anyway, so you might as well marry into a family that is similar to your own, and make that much less of an adjustment. But the 'love marriage', as it is called, is equally common in India now. But it would be interesting to do a comparison of what would work better. Marriage is hard work, and it is a gamble.
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The ambiguities of language, both in terms of vocabulary and syntax, are fascinating: how important connotation is, what is lost and what is gained in the linguistic transition.
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The most important thing in skating is finding your center. There is nothing better than Skate Spinner to do this - not even skates!
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'The Naked Civil Servant' was as important for me as 'Easy Rider' was for Jack Nicholson. No question.
