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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When people say to me 'what do you think of rap music?' my answer is there's no such thing. There's rap and there's music.
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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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What TV is extremely good at - and realize that this is 'all it does' - is discerning what large numbers of people think they want, and supplying it.
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Everyone should just be exactly who they are.
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America had the message of freedom and democracy, but we haven't actually shown that to be what we do in the world. So I think that's a terrifying thing.
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The hardest thing in golf is trying to two-putt when you have to, because your brain isn't wired that way. You're accustomed to trying to make putts, and when you change that mind-set, your brain short-circuits, especially under pressure.
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I am a geek. I am an otaku.
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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.
