William Hurt Quotes
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Films are meant solely to provide entertainment. There are no lessons to be learnt and and inferences to be drawn. Has anyone become dutiful and law abiding after seeing a film that espouses these very virtues? Films can do no more than influence fashion, decor, and hairstyle trends.
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The financial catastrophe of 2008 nearly precipitated a calamitous economic depression, jolting America and much of the West into a sudden recognition of their systemic vulnerability to unregulated greed.
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For a man of my generation, our century has been a long intellectual and political struggle in favor of freedom.
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I love Bridget Fonda.
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We've got a yawl named the Phebe, which is named for a boat in a whaling journal my father and I edited. We keep a copy of the journal on board.
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I don't set out to win awards. I don't think any musician does, but when you receive an award, it's an affirmation: it means that people appreciate what you do. Every award I have received is a confirmation of something I have done, and that motivates me to push a little harder.
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I am very close to my brother Ramesh Babu. When my father was away for shootings, my brother would take care of me, and I am very close to him, and yes, Dad's always special.
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One of the most important roles of our journalists is to be watchdogs.
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There is kind of an underground conservative movement in Hollywood, really.
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Isn't privacy about keeping taboos in their place?
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I have a wonderful husband, and we have had a great life.
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I don't want to make games for 12-year-olds. I have no interest in that. I haven't been 12 in a long time.
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Live your days on the positive side of life, in tune with your most treasured values. And in each moment you'll have much to live for.
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The Chinese are really good at diplomacy - and even at making their interlocutors feel very uncomfortable.
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Acting is the work of two people - it's only possible when you have the complicity, the help, even the manipulation of a director.
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To some degree we all live with uncertainty. We have no control over the future. Yet we carry on, we persevere, because, I guess, it's the way we're made.
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Communities don't think, don't believe, don't want, don't have needs, don't have interests and don't make decisions. Only individuals have minds that generate desires and needs - and only individuals can make choices and decisions.
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Theology made no provision for evolution. The biblical authors had missed the most important revelation of all! Could it be that they were not really privy to the thoughts of God?
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First scenes are super-important to me. I'll spend months and months pacing and climbing the walls trying to come up with the first scene. I drive for hours on the freeway.
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Armed people are free. No state can control those who have the machinery and the will to resist, no mob can take their liberty and property. And no 220 pound thug can threaten the well-being or dignity of a 110 pound woman who has two pounds of iron to even things out. Is that evil? Is that wrong?
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I have no connections here; only gusty collisions, rootless seedlings forced into bloom, that collapse. ... I am the Visiting Poet: a real unicorn, a wind-up plush dodo, a wax museum of the Movement. People want to push the buttons and see me glow.
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I just looked at him because I want to be looking in someone's eyes when I die.
