Holly Hunter Quotes
My sister took me as her own. My mum had a lot of help raising me. That's what happens in large families: your siblings raise you.
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There are recurring elements in popularized fairy tales, such as absent parents, some sort of struggle, a transformation, and a marriage. If you look at a range of stories, you find many stories about marriage, sexual initiation, abandonment. The plots often revolve around what to me seem to be elemental fears and desires.
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When I started out back in Louisville, there was Harry Collins. He was my first teacher. He saw that I was so obsessed with magic that he taught me the love of magic.
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All the energy, all the pain, sweat and tears that go into it, the amount I had to put in to get me to where I had to play, it was more taxing on me physically and mentally than it was good for me.
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In capitalist history, invasion and class struggle are not opposites, as the official legend would have us believe, but one is the means and the expression of the other.
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Can you think of anything more permanently elating than to know that you are on the right road at last?
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I think it's fair to say that all of the teams that have been in the playoffs have played very physically.
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In 15 years we'll have all the sequence, a list of the genes everyone has in common and those that differ among people. We know only something like a tenth of 1 percent of the sequence at the moment.
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I don't look at myself as suffering.
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When you've heard one bagpipe tune, you've heard them both.
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Since the 1980s, we've been living in this era, really, of corporate rule, based on this idea that the role of government is to liberate the power of capital so that they can have as much economic growth as quickly as possible, and then all good things will flow from that.
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I'm a 'Blackadder' girl.
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It wasn't my dream to make music. It was just something I ended up doing, and no one said stop.
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I've come to feel that if I can't make something happen in under an hour and a half, it's not going to happen in a compelling way in a three-hour play.
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I have no problem being mainstream. I grew up in the '90s when the mainstream was amazing.
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When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.
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I had a very happy childhood, which is unsuitable if you're going to be an Irish writer.
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I'll come and make love to you at five o'clock. If I'm late start without me.
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There's a really easy way of just kind of wearing make-up but looking like there's nothing on your face... I'm still not very good at it, and I'm learning slowly.
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'Isn’t there any way-' He broke off. Can’t the past be altered? he asked himself. Evidently not. Cause and effect work in only one direction, and change is real. So what’s gone is gone, and I might as well get out of here.
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I'm the sort of person who takes a camera to dinner or a nightclub because I enjoy taking pictures of people. I tweet all my pictures, which is bad.
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Thank God for gay men. Thank God for gay men, because if it were not for gay men, I would not talk to men at all.
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The measure of a man's life is the well spending of it, and not the length.
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In a couple of years I think it [sequel to What We Do] will come out as a script and we'll shoot that. Or maybe it will just come out as some t-shirts.
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My sister took me as her own. My mum had a lot of help raising me. That's what happens in large families: your siblings raise you.
