William Hurt Quotes
I need six weeks of rehearsal and women need nine months and it took me 15 years to figure that out
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I think acting, for me, is about play. It's about time, and it's about feeling, like there's a story to tell and I can tell it through my body and my voice.
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As you get older, you get different, and I'm a mushier, softer person as I get older.
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The war is dreadful. It is the business of the artist to follow it home to the heart of the individual fighters - not to talk in armies and nations and numbers - but to track it home.
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Since obscenity is the truth of our passion today, it is the only stuff of art - or almost the only stuff.
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One must not let oneself be overwhelmed by sadness.
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Silence may be as variously shaded as speech.
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Because in big and diverse societies like ours, progress ultimately depends on something more basic, and that is how we see each other. And we know from experience what makes nations strong. And Neha I think did a great job of describing the essence of what’s important here. We are strongest when we see the inherent dignity in every human being.
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I was responsible to no one, I had no need mumble excuses or lies. I would become someone else and my metamorphosis would be so complete that no one I’d met over the past fifteen years would be able to recognize me. (116)
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A tailor is a person's best friend as far as I'm concerned, because you can take things that fit OK or look OK, and if you get them tailored, they can be fabulous.
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My father is my hero. No matter what, I'll always forgive him.
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What I wanted to create with 'The Luminaries' is a book that had structural patterns built in that didn't matter, but if you cared about them, you could look into the book and see them.
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I want to learn. I want to stretch my muscles as a director and work under different circumstances.
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The internal affairs of other countries has a big impact on American interests.
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Latinas are the fastest growing segment of the minority population, and their perspective deserves to be represented, not denigrated.
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I feel like a lot of funders of documentaries today want to fund films that have a social message that is going to yield results.
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I'm saved every day by the intrinsic value of the work I do, which I truly enjoy.
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I was the first Latino member of Congress to support Senator Obama's candidacy. For quite a while, I was the only one.
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The need of expansion is as genuine an instinct in man as the need in a plant for the light, or the need in man himself for going upright. The love of liberty is simply the instinct in man for expansion.
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There are no problem horses, only problem riders.
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My father, Tommy, who was a trained draughtsman, played for Preston North End in the Finney era. He liked football but did not love it as I do.
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This is our moment...while we breathe, we hope. And where we are met with cynicism and doubts and those who tell us that we can't, we will respond with that timeless creed that sums up the spirit of a people: Yes, we can.
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The shows are either 11 or 22 minutes and they move pretty quickly, and that's part of the charm of them - so it was just trying to keep that in mind and keep the energy of the story moving, even though we were dealing with a longer format.
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No conditions justify torture.
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I need six weeks of rehearsal and women need nine months and it took me 15 years to figure that out
