William Hurt Quotes
Sometimes people call me a success for all the reasons that make me think I'm a failure
Quotes to Explore
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By the general process of epic poetry, I mean the way this form of art has constantly responded to the profound needs of the society in which it was made.
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For me, it's actually really hard to write about my real experience. Like to do a Taylor Swift. You know what I mean? It's so brave to actually write about things that happened and things you wanna get off your chest, but I'm not really there yet.
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I want to pursue a career in film.
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Eventually, I grew out of my interest in motorcycles because they're quite dangerous. I don't ride them anymore. But I have this history.
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Generally a chef's book is like a calling card or a portfolio to display their personal work.
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To stay interested in tennis, I have to mix it up with other things.
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Be who you are and be that well.
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My hope that Thatcher would inadvertently bring about a new political revolution was well and truly bogus. All that sprang out of Thatcherism were extreme financialisation, the triumph of the shopping mall over the corner store, the fetishisation of housing and Tony Blair.
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It was not about losing my mental power; it's about not feeling good about my contribution to the game.
Garry Kasparov -
How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
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No Hindu community, however low, will touch cow's flesh. On the other hand, there is no community which is really an Untouchable community which has not something to do with the dead cow. Some eat her flesh, some remove the skin, some manufacture articles out of her skin and bones.
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The difficulty, the ordeal, is to start.
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No man may make another free.
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No matter what job you do, we all have a much different life than our parents had. My parents' generation had one job and then they retired. Now, people have many different jobs.
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I love doing serious movies for adults.
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Entrepreneurship requires flexibility and an open society, and there will always be people who succeed and people who follow. For those who lead, they have an obligation to create a better life for the people around them.
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Art is born of humiliation.
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It's always nice to have more than just two hands if you're making cakes.
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I have a strong memory of my early childhood. I can remember life before I was two. I remember being toilet-trained like it was last week - and it wasn't last week.
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Yeah, we went to England to do a show and I got off the plane and I couldn't write my name or hold my hand up.
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Finding new books to read and relaxing is what I enjoy when I do have some time to spend on my own.
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I had four or five years in school training as a soprano. I fell into pop singing because of economics. I got out of high school and had to go work, and they weren't hiring opera singers.
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No one likes to be criticized, of course, but if the things we successfully strive for do not make our future selves happy, or if the things we unsuccessfully avoid do, then it seems reasonable (if somewhat ungracious) for them to cast a disparaging glance backward and wonder what the hell we were thinking.
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Sometimes people call me a success for all the reasons that make me think I'm a failure
