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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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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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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Impenetrable in their dissimulation, cruel in their vengeance, tenacious in their purposes, unscrupulous as to their methods, animated by profound and hidden hatred for the tyranny of man - it is as though there exists among them an ever-present conspiracy toward domination, a sort of alliance like that subsisting among the priests of every country.
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Poor? What does that matter? When poverty creeps in at the door, love flies in through the window.
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Old age hath yet his honour and his toil.
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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
