Holly Hunter Quotes

Sometimes I take a movie that I know is not great; it's not great on the page, but I need to work. Sometimes I need to make the money. I need dough. I want to work, and so I'll take something that is compromised in some arena. But it's like, actors gotta act.

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• Every time - well, not every time, but in celebration of a great review or a great accolade, I take the team of Daniel to Katz's Deli for lunch. We take the trip on the subway, we were like 40 or 50 people, and we go in the back room and have a pastrami sandwich.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • People
  • Time
  • Great

• Contrary to the royal and uptight image of polo, I want to bring it to a younger generation. This is a great sport that can have a larger audience and appeal to more people. Sportsmanship is lacking in many other sports that I don't want to name.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • People
  • Great
  • Sports

• I got to work with legendary director Garry Marshall.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Work
  • Director
  • Got

• There are millions of Americans outside Washington who are tired of stale political arguments and are moving this country forward. They believe, and I believe, that here in America, our success should depend not on accident of birth, but the strength of our work ethic and the scope of our dreams.

  

  Barack Obama
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  • Believe
  • Country

• It is obvious that the monetary union among 17 very different European countries does not work. As an economist, I know that the Eurozone is not an optimum currency area, as defined in economic theory.

  

  Vaclav Klaus
  • Work
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  • Know

• It was all about flying round the world, working hard, being on the cover of Vogue, making money. It wasn't fun. It was exhausting, but I was young and convinced I knew best.

  

  Rachel Hunter
  • World
  • Money
  • Fun

• I've worked in television all my life, but really I've always wanted to work in the movies.

  

  E. L. James
  • Life
  • Work
  • My Life

• After Halle Berry does her films and Queen Latifah does her films, it's left to all the black, Latino and Asian actresses to fight over a couple of roles. I opted for some TV. There's just not a ton of work in film.

  

  Gabrielle Union
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  • Black
  • Couple

• My best work is often almost unconscious and occurs ahead of my ability to understand it.

  

  Sam Abell
  • Work
  • Best
  • Understand

• You don't need money to be free. You can just say if you don't need stuff, you're always free.

  

  Malik Bendjelloul
  • Money
  • Free
  • Always

• Clearly, children's charities struggle to find private sources of money to sustain their benevolent programs.

  

  Dana Rohrabacher
  • Children
  • Money
  • Struggle

• Having a lot of people suddenly depending on me to get the job done was a marvelous motivator. The book and movie deals seemed to flip a switch in my head, and off I went.

  

  Laura Hillenbrand
  • People
  • Done
  • Job

• Some kids spent their allowance going to see 'Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom'; I spent mine on a great-looking lamp I'd found at the flea market and a ceramic bowl from a neighborhood garage sale.

  

  Nate Berkus
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• My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
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  • True
  • Religion

• Cinema is a thankless industry where sometimes to appear on the cinematic scenery is a thing for late bloomers and people who are very patient. The places are accounted, and the space is often unwelcoming. Money is rare, and independent voices are muted by the almost complete absence of risk takers.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • People
  • Money
  • Space

• One must beware of ministers who can do nothing without money, and those who want to do everything with money.

  

  Indira Gandhi
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  • Want
  • Nothing

• As governor, I will always be willing to work with people who have ideas to offer and are ready to roll up their sleeves. That kind of teamwork will build a New Hampshire that will lead the nation and compete with the world. Together, we will help our businesses grow and build a stronger economy on a vision of innovation and growth.

  

  Maggie Hassan
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• My unusual beauty tip is that I often use Vaseline to take my make up off. It works great and is good for sensitive skin.

  

  Rachel Bilson
  • Up
  • Good
  • Great

• Tolerance, openness to argument, openness to self-doubt, willingness to see other people's points of view - these are very liberal and enlightened values that people are right to hold, but we can't allow them to delude us to the point where we can't recognise people who are needlessly perpetrating human misery.

  

  Sam Harris
  • People
  • Doubt
  • Values

• It was only when I started to dig my heels in that I started to realize that's what I needed to do - that nobody was going to open the door for me, that I had to make some space.

  

  Dave Holland
  • Space
  • Door

• If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.

  

  William James
  • Desire
  • Care
  • Enough

• Beware the tyranny of the weak. They just suck you dry.

  

  Anthony Hopkins

• Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue.

  

  John Muir
  • Air

• Sometimes I take a movie that I know is not great; it's not great on the page, but I need to work. Sometimes I need to make the money. I need dough. I want to work, and so I'll take something that is compromised in some arena. But it's like, actors gotta act.

  

  Holly Hunter
  • Work
  • Great
  • Money