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 consider that 9/11 was the day when war was started against my own work and against myself. Even though we are not sure of the links, Iraq was one of the countries that did not lower its flags in mourning on 9/11.
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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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You know, my parents had a restaurant. And I left home, actually, in 1949, when I was 13 years old, to go into apprenticeship. And actually when I left home, home was a restaurant - like I said, my mother was a chef. So I can't remember any time in my life, from age 5, 6, that I wasn't in a kitchen.
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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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Night and the day, when united, Bring forth the beautiful light.
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My best tip: Create re-occurring calendar events for your exercise times. When a conflict arises, it forces you to consciously choose work over exercise, and often you'll find you have time for both.
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I'm not going to talk about Picasso. I have done my duty to those memories. I have had a great career as an artist myself, you know. I'm not here just because I've spent time with Picasso.
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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.
