Holly Hunter Quotes
Crazy people are my people? Really? I think that's silly. That's another one of those pigeonhole things. Lay somebody on an ironing board and put a scalding hot iron on them, get that going real good: 'Oh, this is who Holly Hunter is.'

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I dread shooting with animals. I hope I never get a script with snakes.
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Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.
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My dad's a doctor, and when I was 8, I went to one of his medical conferences where they were demonstrating laser surgery on a chicken. I was so mad that a chicken had to die, I never ate meat again.
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We do not yet have the solutions to these questions, but the awareness that we live in an endangered world is present in more and more life situations.
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My mother worked in factories, worked as a domestic, worked in a restaurant, always had a second job.
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Becoming a vampire means completely changing your identity.
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In fact, the socialization gives us the tools to fill our evolutionary roles. They are our building blocks.
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I have been the victim of heartless malice.
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The Wood was about young people and the other one is more of a grown up movie.
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I think every day we look at the mess of the chaos of the civil war in Iraq, I think every day people become more and more convinced that the war was a mistake. I think we have to learn from the mistakes of our past.
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Man knows so much and does so little.
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Eventually, I decided that if I was going to really write a novel, I couldn't do it in New York City while holding down a job. You need a constant money source to live in New York City unless you're independently wealthy, which I'm not.
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Blessedness is not the reward of virtue but virtue itself.
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I acted in high school and studied at the British American Drama Academy in Oxford for one summer. I minored in theater, and I was always acting growing up and stuff, but really, I was just more interested in the comedy of it all. So for me, it's always comedy, and then acting is just one medium of comedy.
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I had to read Plato and Kant, and at times I was overwhelmed. But I have always been fearless, and so was Hannah Arendt. She wasn't afraid to speak out when she knew her opinions would not be popular because she believed in the public discourse above all.
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I have learned that to have a good friend is the purest of all God's gifts, for it is a love that has no exchange of payment.
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Great men lose somewhat of their greatness by being near us; ordinary men gain much.
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I think it's the actor's job - when you think of being typecast or getting out of the shadow of whatever you've had success in - it's up to you as an actor. The industry will always want to hire you for what you were successful in last and what made money. But you can say no to that and look for other parts.
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I certainly support civil unions.
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At the end of the day, if you want to create more IP and more invention, you need to connect between research and entrepreneurs. People who are going to take a risk.
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Our products weren't getting some of the excitement they deserved because you were waiting on hold on the phone, or we missed an appointment.
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I work for the public, for the people who are paying to go to the cinema, rather than for the critics.
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I've always followed my enthusiasm. Whether the pictures have turned out good or not is one thing - but I've always had a lot of enthusiasm for the project at hand.
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Crazy people are my people? Really? I think that's silly. That's another one of those pigeonhole things. Lay somebody on an ironing board and put a scalding hot iron on them, get that going real good: 'Oh, this is who Holly Hunter is.'