John Hurt Quotes
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The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.
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We hope the stories of the 14 kids in 'American High' provide something for many people to relate to.
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It's no secret that I'm my dad's biggest fan.
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We were these arty punks from Hollywood. I considered myself an intellectual.
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What is Norah Jones' style? Is it just the albums that we've heard? She has a rock group where she plays guitar in, downtown in New York, so do we really know her style?
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You know, I've sold a lot of bad movies in my time.
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I don't know that on-demand sports is remarkably better than live sports.
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There's not some idea I'm going to create a work that's going to change everybody's consciousness.
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A lot of people I make music with are really talented and it doesn't stop at one instrument.
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Authenticity means erasing the gap between what you firmly believe inside and what you reveal to the outside world.
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In rough times, pathfinders rely on work, friends, humor and prayer. They develop a support network.
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I've had the most untraumatic life a human being can have. But I've always been drawn to those who have had far more complicated histories.
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I've seen articles suggesting that Wal-Mart buys at prices lower than our competitors', and that this gives Wal-Mart an unfair advantage. I don't believe it... What we hear is concern that in some circumstances, Wal-Mart may actually be paying more than our competitors.
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She looked at me penetratingly. So I suppose you can figure out what happened next.
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A fine world in which man reproaches woman with fulfilling his heart's desire!
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There's always a version of me who is the narrator. And I make myself look better than other people.
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I'm for people bettering themselves, no matter who they are and where they are, doing all they can to be all they can be.
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I was always a writer – working on campaigns was never a profession for me. It was something I did on the side, really, so the trajectory hasn't been a political operative who likes to dabble in writing and finds himself into stumbling on film and TV – that was always my goal.
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Accents are very tangible, blessedly, and if you have to do one, it's a way of getting into character. I can read it through a few times and pretend I know what I'm doing!
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Kids can really get better quickly. Here's another thing I would like to say: Kids should never be coached by their parents, ever. They should be as natural as possible.
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The first thing I do whenever I go to Thailand is seek out the closest restaurant or stall selling mango-and-sticky rice: it's a little hillock of glutinous rice drenched in lashings of coconut milk and served with fresh mango.
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I get so disenfranchised reading the news, because global borders and lines we've created are completely unnecessary. That's just another person on the other side, and it's his bad luck that he was born there and it's my good fortune that I was born here. It's all kind of illogical.
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But sports photography isn't something you just pick up overnight. You can't do it once a year for fun and expect to do a good job. And I take pride in what I do.
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I think fame makes people a bit nervous.
