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.
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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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No matter how you cut them, paste them, rotate them, or distort them, lip syncing and air-guitar playing are fundamentally foolish activities, and anyone seen to be engaging in them with anything approaching a straight face is, by definition, taking herself or himself much too seriously.
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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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What I discovered in Auschwitz is the human condition, the end point of a great adventure, where the European traveler arrived after his two-thousand-year-old moral and cultural history.
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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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Before the singularity, human beings living on Earth had looked at the stars and consoled themselves in their isolation with the comforting belief that the universe didn’t care.Unfortunately, they were mistaken.
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People hate the man who is a constant drain on their sympathy.
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I've been a runner a long time. When I first got into it, I started doing small triathlons in Chicago, and I just did it to get in shape. When I got out of college, I put on a few pounds like everybody does. I did it when I was in my early 20s, but I never really did any long runs.
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I don’t like to solve new needs, I like to solve existing needs.
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The thing that interests me most about family history is the gap between the things we think we know about our families and the realities.
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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.
