John Hurt Quotes

I'd never done any Beckett before 'Krapp,' and I haven't done any of his other plays since. I've always felt that 'Krapp' is an autobiographical piece.

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• We continue to be bullish on China.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • China
  • Continue
  • Bullish

• When I was 8 or 9, I started using bulletin board systems, which was the precursor to the Internet, where you'd dial into... a shared system and shared computers. I've had an email address since the late '80s, when I was 8 or 9 years old, and then I got on the Internet in '93 when it was first starting out.

  

  Aaron Patzer
  • Internet
  • Old
  • Computers

• Unfortunately, man, a lot of places in America have to deal with unnecessary violence. Somebody like me who knows it firsthand and could relate... I had a best friend killed, plenty other friends killed. I been through it. I seen it.

  

  Nas
  • Friends
  • America
  • Friend

• I know what feels good to eat and what doesn't. I try to err on the side of choices I know will leave me feeling more energized and ready to go, because it's always better to feel healthy.

  

  Taylor Schilling
  • Know
  • Choices
  • Healthy

• Vox populi vox dei: the voice of the people is the voice of God. The slogan was useful for those who first attempted to substitute the people for God as the source of political authority. Their attempt was ultimately so successful that God no longer seems to be needed in government.

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • People
  • God
  • Political

• Of all Iraq's rocket scientists, none drew warier scrutiny abroad than Modher Sadeq-Saba Tamimi.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Rocket
  • Abroad
  • Scrutiny

• Remember happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Think
  • Happiness
  • Depend

• I love things that are indescribable, like the taste of an avocado or the smell of a gardenia.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Love
  • Smell
  • Gardening

• I don't want my writing to be work to read. My main goal is completely shameless entertainment. I want people to smile and giggle and enjoy the book. I'm not trying to save the world through literature.

  

  Gail Carriger
  • People
  • World
  • Work

• It's such an honor to do this job because I love it. And I get to work outside, and what can beat that?

  

  Venus Williams
  • Work
  • Love
  • Job

• I'm not one to get involved with what anyone says about me.

  

  Zayn Malik One Direction
  • Me
  • Involved
  • Says

• I could probably name thousands of albums that I want.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Want
  • Name
  • Albums

• It's not the name that makes the player. It's the player.

  

  Barry Bonds
  • Player
  • Name
  • Makes

• A funeral eulogy is a belated plea for the defense delivered after the evidence is all in.

  

  Irvin S. Cobb
  • Evidence
  • Defense
  • Funeral

• There has been no persecution I have not tasted, no oppression I have not suffered. I neither care for Paradise nor fear Hell. If I see my nation's belief secured, I will not even care about burning in Hell, for while my body is burning, my heart will be as if in a rose garden.

  

  Said Nursi
  • Heart
  • Fear
  • Garden

• You can involve yourself in electronics, computers, puzzles... there's a lot of creativity and brain working. There's a lot to model trains that people don't realize.

  

  Gary Coleman
  • People
  • Brain
  • Model

• You have to have sympathy for and an empathy with a character in order to play them.

  

  Laura Carmichael
  • Character
  • Empathy
  • Sympathy

• Usually Mexico, or always Mexico has defended itself and its territory.

  

  Vicente Fox
  • Always
  • Mexico
  • Territory

• In case you missed it, this week, there was a tragedy in Kansas. Ten thousand people died – an entire town destroyed.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People

• I think you have to really, really want to be a film star.

  

  Marianne Faithfull
  • Star

• In real danger sometimes even a democracy can really keep a secret.

  

  Stuart Symington
  • Democracy
  • Secret
  • Danger

• With marathon swimming, I think you have to use your head more than you do in pool events, which are more automatic. You can just go out and replicate your training pace in competition. With the marathon, though, you have to contend with nature, physical contact, and time.

  

  Poliana Okimoto
  • Time
  • Nature
  • Training

• Everyone says how Calvin and Hobbes is about a real kid, to me there's nothing real about it; it's an adult using a kid's body as a mouthpiece.

  

  Bill Griffith
  • Real

• I'd never done any Beckett before 'Krapp,' and I haven't done any of his other plays since. I've always felt that 'Krapp' is an autobiographical piece.

  

  John Hurt
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