Holly Hunter Quotes
I don't make decisions just on the character I'm supposed to play. Sometimes it's based on the director, sometimes it's based on the story, sometimes I need money, or sometimes I'm just starved to work.
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Comfort and luxury are usually the chief requirements of life for your ego - its top priorities tend to be accumulations, achievements, and the approval of others.
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It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'
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I think you can say anybody uses anything as a gimmick. Is Adele's not having gimmicks her gimmick? It's hard to say, isn't it? Really, I think that everybody has something that people like or that's great about them.
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My mother did all she could to control me, but at age 14 she sent me to a military school.
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I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.
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I put on whatever is comfortable on me. Suit, jeans and tee as long as it's comfortable. It doesn't matter what brand. If it looks good I buy it.
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I have been blessed to visit the Holy City of Mecca.
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Somebody tell the damn players to start playing like old school.
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I don't talk in ifs.
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If I present a boring personal life to my readers, it's going to be harder for them to think of my novels as thrilling.
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Excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism.
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Take heed, then, often to come together to give thanks to God, and show forth His praise. For when you assemble frequently in the same place, the powers of Satan are destroyed, and the destruction at which he aims is prevented by the unity of your faith.
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My first priority is trying to protect my family.
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On my tombstone just write, 'The sorest loser that ever lived.'
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I have much to say about the pain I've felt and seen inside of prison. It has been an eye-opening and harrowing experience.
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I had a terrible bout of acne after I turned 30.
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Performers are the neediest people in the world. Unless you've been in that goldfish bowl - nobody can judge unless they've worn those shoes.
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People who think about art as an investment are pathetic.
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I think women are in much the same place in the Irish theater as they are everywhere else. Certainly, we have wonderful Irish writers, and we have quite a number of Irish women directors. But there could be more, and there should be more.
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I think the theme of the album probably was just that it was our first record.
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One year you go in for auditions, and everybody thinks you're the queen of comedy, and the next year, you're so 'yesterday,' and it's not because you've done anything, or your ability has changed; you haven't been in work because you've been putting on weight and then trying to lose it.
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A new car is not going to change your life.
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A failure to act is a terrible, stunning legacy for any leader. But far worse when it is the president of the United States. And that's the point driven home by Romney's selection of Ryan, who dared to lead when Obama did not.
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I don't make decisions just on the character I'm supposed to play. Sometimes it's based on the director, sometimes it's based on the story, sometimes I need money, or sometimes I'm just starved to work.
