Earnest Hooton Quotes
I am a primate; nothing about primates is alien to me. Paraphrasing Latin playwright Terence's words: Homo sum: humani nil a me alienum puto (I am a man; nothing about men is alien to me).
Quotes to Explore
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What you look like, whether you're Brad Pitt or Charles Laughton, is significant for actors.
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I wore U.S.A. across my chest in 1976.
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I have to be smart. You cannot be going in there, trying to go forward and pressure guys, and be taking damage and getting hurt on the way to doing it.
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I've already fought my share. God gave me a rich, eventful career, and I thank God for everything, but I'm done fighting.
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I have a mantra in my head that there will always be another meal. I can put my fork down, knowing there will be good things in my future!
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We pay when old for the excesses of youth.
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I don't mind being called snobbish, a pain and a social climber, but being called unkind really hurts.
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Men are mortal. So are ideas. An idea needs propagation as much as a plant needs watering. Otherwise both will wither and die.
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I don't play many characters like myself. Oh I don't know what I am!
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The first two projects I did out of my dorm room were mock film soundtracks.
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I've been spending quite a bit of time in Canada, New Zealand, Australia, and the U.K. as Mint is expanding globally, and I'm personally doing much of the research and business deals to make them happen.
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Breathing is fundamental to speech. A stammer is caused by erratic airflow, so if you have a smooth airflow, you have smooth speech.
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Just because you've been on stage doesn't mean you can dance.
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Science is meaningless because it gives no answer to our question, the only question important for us: 'what shall we do and how shall we live
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'Tom Sawyer' could have been written eight months ago, with the kind of response it still gets.
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Emotion is something that you don't simply receive. Emotion is compelled. Other than that, we're just shells until we're possessed or reanimated from time to time by different emotions.
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The prices of raw materials do not fluctuate directly with the labour cost of producing them.
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I say the stupidest stuff, all the time, off of Twitter, and so I think Twitter is good way for people to get to know the stupid side of me.
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Growing up, my mother was a very strong woman who was not very big, about 5'1'', but boy, you grabbed a tiger by the tail if you messed with her. I know grown men that messed with her, and through her wit and intelligence and her no-quit, she never lost a fight. That's very influential on me when I'm telling stories. I love exploring that.
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Before Arthur, I'd dismissed altogether writing fiction. You only have so many semi-sharp arrows in your quiver, I'd told myself, and I was not going to be able to write a novel.
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It's so great in Hollywood now. You have people past 40 sitting and talking about serious stuff, writing and making movies and TV, but there's laser pistols and superheroes and alien monsters involved. It's viable and mainstream.
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Part of the reason why Scandinavian crime has been so popular is the landscape. It is just so strong and alien. Although without taking anything away, you should probably also never discount the fact that blood does look particularly good against snow.
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They asked if I was interested in a role as a large alien in a movie.
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I am a primate; nothing about primates is alien to me. Paraphrasing Latin playwright Terence's words: Homo sum: humani nil a me alienum puto (I am a man; nothing about men is alien to me).
