Holly Hunter Quotes
Sometimes it's very difficult to do a movie that's good and then have that movie make it to the light of day.
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Traditionally, open-minded secular liberal rationalists have not made a case for tolerance.
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There is nothing people can throw at me to say: 'Do this, do that.'
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When you like something and you're pretty good at it and you can make a living doing it, you don't ask why. You just count your blessings and go with it.
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I think of Twitter as the place where I go to have a great conversation when I can't have one locally, which seems to be all the time, and the more time that I spend on Twitter, the more I sort of curate this incredible group of very intelligent people that I just get to know purely through the quality of their thoughts.
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I like having a smaller family. I think the more people you have in the family, the more people there are to have problems with.
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Since grief only aggravates your loss, grieve not for what is past.
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In the late '90s, I spent a lot of time on reservations, and there was a level of poverty and injustice that I had not witnessed before. I was shocked by it. This is federally controlled land, and there was an insidious mix of apathy and exploitation.
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The guy who says, 'I love the challenge of managing,' is one step from being out of a job.
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Depending on where my self-confidence was, growing up, I would use humor either to bring people closer, or to keep them away from certain feelings I had.
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I was the ugly duckling until I reached puberty.
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If you don't vote, you don't count.
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I know I had been successful in football. I had been successful in broadcasting. I didn't think that anything could touch me. I thought, I can beat anything.
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What you wear onstage is a reflection of your artistry.
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I'm a creative person, so I have to stay busy.
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I base jumped off one of the highest buildings in the world.
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I have a specialized racing bike, which is great because it has a solid build, is comfortable to ride, and is lightweight.
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Of course, violence will not end with our combat mission. Extremists will continue to set off bombs, attack Iraqi civilians and try to spark sectarian strife. But ultimately, these terrorists will fail to achieve their goals.
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Some people look gender non-conforming because they want to look that way - they don't want to conform to society's expectations.
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I've become a day writer: most people start as night writers, and I used to be, but something happened to my endocrine system. I do miss the 3 A.M. writing jags.
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As you get older, time speeds up but life slows down.
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Actually it seems to me that one can hardly say anything either bad enough or good enough about life.
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Hope is a key ingredient in what drives creativity - the hope of bringing to life what exists in the imagination, of transforming the ordinary into the extraordinary - so it's completely logical that Hollywood is the entertainment capital of the world. It's full of people bursting with the desire to make the world laugh, cry, think.
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Sometimes it's very difficult to do a movie that's good and then have that movie make it to the light of day.
