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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You've got the federal government in every part of our lives, doing things wrong.
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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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I've refined my mechanics, refined my pitches. I've gotten more confidence, and I've gotten more determination. I've got a better idea what I'm doing out there.
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I used to have a real passion for writing, but not so much anymore - probably because I do too much of it.
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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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I needed something to challenge myself a little more. I found fighting, and it completely fit my personality.
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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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The very eagle, destined to soar so high and to see so far, begins his life in the fissures of the rocks, and in his early days only sees the arid and sometimes fetid borders of his eyry.
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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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I always say, 'Be anxious for nothing,' because if this is my social media, if this is a platform for me to really get the word out and get my brand out, then why am I gonna be anxious about it?
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The Universe is either expressing a miracle or is pregnant with the next one.
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Fans write to us via our publisher and more than ever via the Internet, blogs and fan sites, and good writers should be actively seeking out that interaction. Gone are the days when writers are dead or hidden away in dusty attics; nowadays, you've got to get out there.
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When someone beats a rug, the blows are not against the rug, but against the dust in it.
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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
