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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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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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 is plenty of blame to go around for the U.S. housing bubble, but not much of it belongs to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. The two giant housing-finance institutions made many mistakes over the decades, some of them real whoppers, but causing house prices to soar and then crater during the past decade weren't among them.
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Man was made at the end of the week's work, when God was tired.
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I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.
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Money cannot buy peace of mind. It cannot heal ruptured relationships, or build meaning into a life that has none.
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You either have to find a way to be really creative materially, or you better have a trust fund. And, last I checked, I didn't have a trust fund.
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Appearances have very little to do with happiness.
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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
