John Hurt Quotes
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Ignorance is bliss. I wish I still had some.
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I love surfing more than cricket, more interesting and you meet great people.
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Age has been the perfect fire extinguisher for flaming youth.
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Not only did I get an A in music but I got an A in ladies.
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The first single I released, 'Anything Goes,' is probably one of the best-written songs I've heard in a long time. It takes somebody knowing who you are. Sometimes writers know who an artist is and what they want to say and how they sing. I will never be opposed to cutting a song if somebody nails my life and what I'm going through.
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I mean, I would have loved to have kept on being a big television star. If that's the way things would have broke, I would have loved to have done that. I just didn't really want to continue and be someone who took whatever was offered.
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I had a lot of fun in Cambodia, much more so in Cambodia than Vietnam.
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The live setting is always better for me. I usually thrive at live. I feel like having a band behind me and being able to interact with the crowd helps boost my energy up.
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I've had a fast track to who I want to be. I know all of my friends are struggling to what to pick in college, and I've been given a fast pass to kick start my future.
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When we began Qualcomm, it had become quite clear that it was very important to patent new ideas.
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I always try to make each character my own.
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The writer is more concerned to know than to judge.
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After being in one movie, it didn't seem like that would be my life. I had done several jobs, briefly. I'd been a shipping clerk, I worked in a copy shop, I didn't think the acting was going to go on and on.
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A novel can do something that films and TV usually can't - a glimpse inside the characters' heads. I write very tight third person point of view, so the reader is right behind the eyes of each character, seeing what they see and feeling what they feel.
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Texas has no income tax, which is a big draw for corporate executives who do business there. But it's hardly tax-free. The property taxes are high for a Southern state. The sales taxes are high. One study found that the bottom 20 percent of the Texas population pays 12 percent of its income in state and local taxes.
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In general, the apparel industry isn't about continual process improvement or making the perfect piece of denim; it's about chasing trends.
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That was it, then, civilization was officially collapsed if the cops had stopped ticketing abandoned cars and roosted on them instead.
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There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
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At least she recognizes a good love scene when she sees one.
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I don't like to read reviews. Even the good ones you start to analyze: 'Oh, did I do that? I have to make sure I do that again.'
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America says we are a great democratic society and other people should follow our example. Well, I say we benefited from slavery, and as a nation, we never faced that because the people in power chose not to.
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I had felt the shot coming; I hadn't realized the bow was loaded with this very quarrel, perfectly calibrated to hit him hardest. What part of me had been studying him, stockpiling knowledge as ammunition?
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I've been incredibly lucky with the directors I've worked with.
