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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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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Hiding places there are innumerable, escape is only one, but possibilities of escape, again, are as many as hiding places.
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Bromates are regulated by the Safe Drinking Water Act, but officials are required to test for them only when water leaves a treatment plant.
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I am basically a shy person, so performing sometimes helps me focus - having all those people concentrate their attention on you. I don't see it so much as becoming another person onstage; it's more exploring a different side of your personality.
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I like to step outside of what people's idea of me might be. I suppose that makes me a bit of a rule-breaker. I like to take chances.
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I'm a natural technophobe, but I can see the importance of the digital role, and you have to celebrate it - our site is obviously an incredibly important part of our business now.
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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.
