E. Howard Hunt Quotes
My name is E. Howard Hunt. I'm currently retired from more than 22 years in the profession of espionage.
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I really enjoy comedy. It's a real challenge.
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I guess just a lively imagination is the best effort an actor can have.
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I don't care whether you use natural gas, ethanol, the battery. You can use anything, just so it's American.
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Some single mind must be master, else there will be no agreement in anything.
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We must not, however, be like the leaders of the great romantic revolt who, in their eagerness to get rid of the husk of convention, disregarded also the humane aspiration.
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If I can't do high kicks or dance in it, then I won't wear it.
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I don't have bad taste; I have no taste. I wear a lot of the things I wore in high school, but not the cowl-neck sweaters. I was never tall, and I am the same size, so I still wear a lot of those clothes.
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When I first started to get into writing, it was via music. I'd generate ideas for songs that would turn into stories, then they'd turn into novels. I was biased toward music.
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I used to go with my parents and loved it, I was in school plays, and I started reading plays before I started reading novels. I'll defend it to the hilt. When theatre is good it is fabulous.
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As much as people say they love change, they love it when you change - not when you want them to change. Even when it comes to processes they don't like, they're afraid of change.
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I'm a man for whom the outside world is an inner reality.
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Ah! American cigarettes are like the American soul - sweet and light.
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The glamour of Hollywood has never worn thin for me.
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I have allowed the media to behave as it wants. ... I am not worried. The truth will certainly be known.
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Business success is less a function of grandiose predictions than it is a result of being able to respond rapidly to real changes as they occur.
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Experience is the name everyone gives to his mistakes.
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It would seem that the full meaning of the word marriage can never be known by those who, at their first outspring into life, are surrounded by all that money can give. It requires the single sitting-room, the single fire, the necessary little efforts of self-devotion, the inward declaration that some struggle shall be made for that other one.
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The charlatan takes very different shapes according to circumstances; but at bottom he is a man who cares nothing about knowledge for its own sake, and only strives to gain the semblance of it that he may use it for his own personal ends, which are always selfish and material.
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I remember the first time Bill Fichtner and I had a scene together. I've seen him in a few movies, from 'Armageddon' to 'The Perfect Storm' and 'Contact,' and suddenly he's on a bunk bed and I'm on a bunk bed and we're doing this scene together. That was a real 'pinch me' moment.
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I have struck a city - a real city - and they call it Chicago... I urgently desire never to see it again. It is inhabited by savages.
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The sky always seems to be out there, away from us. I like to bring it down in close contact with us, so you feel you are in it. We feel we are at the bottom of this ocean of air; we are actually on a planet.
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I love to listen to the music that first inspired me - I get that fresh feeling back.
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The best writing has no lace on its sleeves.
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My name is E. Howard Hunt. I'm currently retired from more than 22 years in the profession of espionage.
