Holly Hunter Quotes
Some actors say they don't know themselves at all, and that's why they act: because they can disappear into other people.
Quotes to Explore
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What was once underground is now coming to the surface.
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I cannot summon up inspiration; I myself am summoned.
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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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Illustrious acts high raptures do infuse, And every conqueror creates a muse.
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I had to work with a psychiatrist.
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Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.
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You see, O Greeks! The enemy already acknowledge the country to be ours; for when they made peace with us, they stipulated that we should not burn the country belonging to the king, and now they set fire to it themselves, as if they looked upon it no longer as their own.
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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My neighbors think I do nothing because I don't go to a job, which is fine and good.
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I'm a very interior person. I love silence. I revel in it. I'm happy that way.
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It would be hard to ignore the absence of democracy in any Arab nation.
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My mother and my grandmother are pioneers of Mexican cuisine in this country, so I grew up in the kitchen. My mom, Zarela Martinez, was by far my biggest influence and inspiration - and toughest critic.
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As I grew up in that world and saw how much it affected her world and how much it affected our childhood, it made me very aware of politics. Of course, I have my own private feelings and thoughts, but I don't care to share them.
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We did not have a television while I was growing up, and so I read voraciously. My earliest memory of being utterly transfixed by a book was Madeleine L'Engle's 'A Wrinkle in Time.'
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Many people in this world are still so identified with every thought that arises in their head. There is not the slightest space of awareness there.
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I even lived on campus to get the college experience. I had five roommates and I still keep in touch with them while I'm on the road.
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If you wanted to show a mirror to people that says, 'You've been drunk on money,' they're not going to want to see it. But if you reflected that mirror on another time they'd be willing to. People will need an explanation of where we are and where we've been, and 'The Great Gatsby' can provide that explanation.
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It's not what you wear it's how you wear it, is what I say.
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When people write about me, they usually start off with the headline 'World's Greatest Con Man.'
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If I had followed the multitude, I should not have studied philosophy.
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I was a social worker most of my life while raising my two boys.
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I was a super active kid, so I've always been aware of where my body is in space, and I think when I had my legs amputated, it makes you more aware of your body, and because I don't use my legs, I use more of my hands.
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Business is so much lower a thing than learning that a man used to the last cannot easily bring his stomach down to the first.
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Some actors say they don't know themselves at all, and that's why they act: because they can disappear into other people.
