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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I have saved $1,638,580 over my four years. That may not seem like a lot, faced with our deficit, but multiply it by 435 members of the House - and then the senators get three times as much - and you are adding up several millions in savings.
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You've got the federal government in every part of our lives, doing things wrong.
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Ignoring facts does not make them go away.
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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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Superstition? Who can define the boundary line between the superstition of yesterday and the scientific fact of tomorrow?
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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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We inhabit a universe that is characterized by diversity.
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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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Absent or dead, still let a friend be dear.
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A wife who is 85 percent faithful to her husband is not faithful at all. There is no such thing as part-time loyalty to Jesus Christ.
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I had just made this album called 'Mind Blow,' a CD-R release on Spirit of Orr. This was in 2003. Quite a few of the songs from 'Was Dead' were actually on that.
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I felt sure we could gain the upper hand by putting ourselves in the mindset of the Incas.
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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
