Holly Hunter Quotes
I was born and raised on a farm, where boys had chores and girls did not, i.e., drive tractors, bale hay, take care of cattle.
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There's nothing like a music festival. People are ready to have a good time. I don't think anyone comes to a festival going, 'I'm gonna be a complete bummer today.'
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My dad was always interested in characters he didn't understand - he was such a great bad guy in movies. And that is really the thing that calls me to the material often: something I struggle to understand in human behaviour.
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A psychologist said to me, there are only two important questions you have to ask yourself. What do you really feel? And, what do you really want? If you can answer those two, you probably can leave your neuroses behind you.
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He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
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I'm more of a jeans and T-shirt kind of girl.
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After all, life hasn't much to offer except youth, and I suppose for older people, the love of youth in others.
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I never felt I had the kind of relationship with Magic that I could just pick up the phone and call him at home.
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I'm motivated every second by my work; it doesn't switch off. The pictures I make come from every blink of my lashes.
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It is important to keep the filmmakers interested in you so they can offer you everything and anything. We actors are not given work on the basis of audience poll; the filmmaker will cast you after they see and like your work. It is essential to do different kind of films and not get typecast.
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I like the simplicity of a halter-top or plunging neckline, but I'll rough it up by wearing studded shoes and my leather jacket.
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Don't take yourself too seriously! You only live once!
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My grandfather was actually a union organizer at Walt Disney. He was an animator. He used to draw Donald Duck for Walt Disney.
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I was not influenced by composers as much as by natural objects and physical phenomena.
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The easiest way to stop piracy is not by putting antipiracy technology to work. It's by giving those people a service that's better than what they're receiving from the pirates.
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Mass prosperity came with the mass innovation that sprung up in 1815 in Britain, soon after in America, and later in Germany and France: It brought sustained growth to these nations - also to nations with entrepreneurs willing and able to copy the innovations.
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I didn't really get London until I read Dickens. Then I was charmed to death by it.
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If I'm talking about something current, a current issue or something political, it's because I was able to read it when I was on the plane getting to the gig... a lot of it happens when I'm on the road because when I'm home, you're just mom, and that's it.
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The second handers offer substitutes for competence such as love, charm, kindness - easy substitutes - and there is no substitute for creation.
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Ronald Reagan believed in America as the shining city on the hill - Morning in America. But Donald Trump has a much different vision of American greatness, of nationalism - a much darker view, I think, of the world.
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Telling stories has been a compulsion of mine since I could physically say, 'Once upon a time...' But in high school, I realized I could study creative writing in college and actually pursue it as a viable career.
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A food processor, or even one of those small bowls that fit on a stick blender, is a real treasure. No, that's not an overstatement.
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My family has been in politics a long time in Los Angeles. We very much believe we are elected to represent the people. I mean, I am to give voice to, you know, the over half a million people I represent in my congressional district. I mean, that's the way it works.
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Of Adam and Eve: They had what they wanted. That they did not like it when they got it does not alter the fact that they certainly got it.
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I was born and raised on a farm, where boys had chores and girls did not, i.e., drive tractors, bale hay, take care of cattle.
