Holly Hunter Quotes

There's a tremendous amount of humor... in very unexpected places.

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• Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Want
  • You
  • Old

• As a kid, I kind of spent my life being amazed by being tricked. I love being tricked. I still love it today.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Life
  • Love
  • Today

• The person who is bent on killing you will follow you wherever you are.

  

  Ed Koch
  • You
  • Person
  • Follow

• A more secret, sweet, and overpowering beauty appears to man when his heart and mind open to the sentiment of virtue.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Mind
  • Heart
  • Man

• I am a glutton for a beautiful hotel. I am so easily smitten by high thread counts.

  

  Gail Simmons
  • Beautiful
  • Hotel
  • Counts

• I want people to see what's inside my head rather than just looking at me.

  

  FKA twigs
  • People
  • Want
  • See

• By relieving the brain of all unnecessary work, a good notation sets it free to concentrate on more advanced problems, and in effect increases the mental power of the race.

  

  Alfred North Whitehead
  • Good
  • Work
  • Power

• No creature loves an empty space;Their bodies measure out their place.

  

  Andrew Marvell
  • Space

• Remember this- that there is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life.

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • Life
  • Remember

• To talk about religion except in terms of human psychology is an irrelevance.

  

  Aldous Huxley
  • Psychology

• Tot species, tantosque ortus variosque novatusuna dies aperit, conficit ipsa dies.

  

  Ausonius

• I think a lot of nice things happen when you're driving, or when you're on a plane, or whatever. There's a certain freedom that comes along with motion.

  

  Andrew Dost Fun.
  • Freedom
  • Nice
  • Driving

• I create the music, and if this artist could complement this record, I reach out.

  

  Anthony Santos Aventura
  • Music

• The war in Iraq, the abuse of detainees, electronic eavesdropping, Guantanamo Bay - these things were all done on our behalf and they may turn out in the end to have created more terrorists.

  

  Jess Walter
  • Done
  • May
  • War

• I really don't want to make the same film twice, so I am conscious of going after material that is significantly different to anything I've done before.

  

  David MacKenzie
  • Different
  • Done

• On the issues that I care deeply about - the environment, Roe vs. Wade, the war in Iraq, with no weapons of mass destruction, the tax cuts that are now leading to deficits, I've got some deep issues with the president.

  

  Lincoln Chafee
  • War
  • Environment
  • Deep

• The cost of an animated film really comes down to man hours. If you gather together world-class talent, then the question becomes how do you deploy that talent in a way that minimizes waste.

  

  Chris Meledandri
  • World
  • Together
  • Question

• I grew up with probably three different authors having a seminal influence on my childhood, Dr. Seuss being one and Maurice Sendak being another.

  

  Chris Meledandri
  • Up
  • Different
  • Childhood

• It's exciting to sing in the place where you pay your taxes.

  

  Nell Carter

• Man can, indeed, act contrarily to the decrees of God, as far as they have been written like laws in the minds of ourselves or the prophets, but against that eternal decree of God, which is written in universal nature, and has regard to the course of nature as a whole, he can do nothing.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • God
  • Nature

• I am kind of the front man for a team of people behind the scenes who are working just as hard as me and are putting in just as much time to make this all happen. I'm not trying to be humble. I just want everyone to get credit where credit is due.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • People
  • Time
  • Trying

• It's funny, but to me, when you go to a concert hall and hear electronic pieces from the '60s, I think they sound really dated. But when an orchestra plays a piece from that period, and it's going to sound different every time, it feels more modern to me.

  

  Jonny Greenwood Radiohead
  • Time
  • Different
  • Funny

• There's a tremendous amount of humor... in very unexpected places.

  

  Holly Hunter