John Hurt Quotes

I've been incredibly lucky with the directors I've worked with.

John Hurt

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• Ignorance is bliss. I wish I still had some.

  

  Adam Pascal
  • Wish
  • Ignorance
  • Bliss

• I love surfing more than cricket, more interesting and you meet great people.

  

  Hansie Cronje
  • People
  • Great
  • Love

• Age has been the perfect fire extinguisher for flaming youth.

  

  Navjot Singh Sidhu
  • Age
  • Perfect
  • Fire

• Not only did I get an A in music but I got an A in ladies.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Music
  • Only
  • Got

• 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.

  

  Randy Houser
  • Life
  • Time
  • Long

• 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.

  

  Gabe Kaplan
  • Done
  • Want
  • Star

• I had a lot of fun in Cambodia, much more so in Cambodia than Vietnam.

  

  Ed Bradley
  • Fun
  • More
  • Vietnam

• 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.

  

  Naima Adedapo
  • Up
  • Live
  • Energy

• 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.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Friends
  • Future
  • College

• When we began Qualcomm, it had become quite clear that it was very important to patent new ideas.

  

  Irwin M. Jacobs
  • Important
  • Ideas
  • New

• I always try to make each character my own.

  

  Aaron Lazar
  • Character
  • Always
  • Try

• The writer is more concerned to know than to judge.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Know
  • Judge
  • Writer

• 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.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • Life
  • Done
  • Movie

• 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.

  

  Karen Traviss
  • Character
  • Feeling
  • Eyes

• 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.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Business
  • High
  • Free

• In general, the apparel industry isn't about continual process improvement or making the perfect piece of denim; it's about chasing trends.

  

  Tadashi Yanai
  • Perfect
  • Improvement
  • Trends

• That was it, then, civilization was officially collapsed if the cops had stopped ticketing abandoned cars and roosted on them instead.

  

  Pat Cadigan

• There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham

• It always disappoints me when I go to a concert and they don't play my favorite song, or at least one of their biggest hits.

  

  Shania Twain
  • Song

• The way I create music is maybe like a painting, to compose in a more visual way. Basically it's the music that I want to hear- that's my inspiration and bottom line. I just try to get ideas from books, movies, paintings.

  

  Ikue Mori
  • Music
  • Ideas
  • Painting

• A dream, all a dream, that ends in nothing, and leaves the sleeper where he lay down, but I wish you to know that you inspired it.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Dream
  • I Wish
  • Sleeper

• The natural food of man, judging from his structure, appears to consist of the fruits, roots, and other succulent parts of vegetables.

  

  Georges Cuvier
  • Food
  • Structure
  • Vegetables

• Discontented women are like pressure cookers. The steam rises and one day they just reach boiling point.

  

  Arabella Pollen
  • Women
  • Point
  • Boiling

• I've been incredibly lucky with the directors I've worked with.

  

  John Hurt