Holly Hunter Quotes

I love fiction, you know? I find it fascinating. So when film really does go into fictional places, that's the most exciting for me. And when the fiction is about the person rather than about the place, that's even more exciting.

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• I've got four roommates and they all have fur and tails.

  

  Kate Walsh
  • Four
  • Fur
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• Being on TV sucks. It's a lot of work. You memorize scripts and then you show up and they change everything. I'm a control freak. When I'm doing stand-up, I say what I want and then I get instant feedback.

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
  • Up
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• I would love to work with Raju Hirani. I never thought I would have a wish-list of directors as such, but after seeing the consistency of his storylines and the human touch he gets in his film, I would love to work with him.

  

  Ram Charan
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• I really identified with Pocahontas' struggles as a young woman trying to identify herself in a modern, changing world and trying to stay true to her culture and heritage.

  

  Q'orianka Kilcher
  • World
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• I look really odd in jeans and a hoodie - it doesn't feel or seem right.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
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• Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
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• Dissolution and custody matters are the great equalizers. Having done this for a while, you do realize that everybody has the same issues. It doesn't matter how much money you have or how much power you have, you are always afraid you're never going to see your child.

  

  Laura Wasser
  • Great
  • Money
  • Done

• Most of the cricketers are doing side businesses apart from playing the sport, so why should I be left behind. I feel there is a lot of money in making films, and since Punjabi cinema is doing good, this is a lucrative option for me.

  

  Harbhajan Singh
  • Good
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• I was fortunate in that I attended university in Canada in the early 1970s when you could take a true liberal arts degree with no programmes, majors or minors.

  

  O. R. Melling
  • True
  • Early
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• Our experience in fooling around with the genes of mice has taught us that many of the traits that interest us are not definite products of specific mutations but emergent phenomena arising from extremely complex interactions between genes, environment, and life experience.

  

  Gary Wolf
  • Life
  • Experience
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• I love love, and I love life. I love. I just love. It's just great. It's the most enduring element we have is love.

  

  Gary Busey
  • Life
  • Great
  • Love

• Growing up in Poland, I didn't have the experience of going to Disneyland as a child, so I don't have any childhood memories connected to it, good or bad.

  

  Abel Korzeniowski
  • Up
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  • Experience

• Just as an athlete must exercise his body to be a winner, a leader must exercise his position of authority. If he doesn't, he loses that authority.

  

  Jack Ramsay
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• The great social adventure of America is no longer the conquest of the wilderness but the absorption of fifty different peoples.

  

  Walter Lippmann
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• While the soul is in mortal sin, nothing can profit it; none of its good works merit an eternal reward, since they do not proceed from God as their first principle, and by Him alone is our virtue real virtue.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
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• When people criticize me, instead of putting my head down, it gives me energy to do even more.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
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• I've worked with a few coaches, and I did theater camp when I was younger, and I think what was good was when I was younger, it was never intense Interlochen theater camp.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
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• The only bad thing is that we didn't win at Tennessee. Kiffin left that program in a bad position.

  

  Malik Jackson
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• People ask every day, "Why was I put on earth?" As if there is perhaps one reason. The truth is that there are too many reasons to count, and each reason and each soul connects to every other.

  

  Allegra Goodman
  • Earth
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• I don't think Israel's becoming more religious, I think its politics is becoming more religious. There's a difference.

  

  Yair Lapid
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• I miss Denny Crane.

  

  David E. Kelley

• Ukrainian business must really embrace global competition. We need to understand that competition for resources and clients is not with competitors from across the street or from another city, but with millions of businesses around the world.

  

  Victor Pinchuk
  • World
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• The news used to be to report facts and allow you to make the decision.

  

  Jesse Ventura
  • Decision

• I love fiction, you know? I find it fascinating. So when film really does go into fictional places, that's the most exciting for me. And when the fiction is about the person rather than about the place, that's even more exciting.

  

  Holly Hunter