Holly Hunter Quotes
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The men who founded and governed Massachusetts and Connecticut took themselves so seriously that they kept track of everything they did for the benefit of posterity and hoarded their papers so carefully that the whole history of the United States, recounted mainly by their descendants, has often appeared to be the history of New England writ large.
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I was so proud when I was commissioned into the Army.
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Appearance is something absolute, but reality is not that way - everything is interdependent, not absolute. So that view is very helpful to maintain a peace of mind because the main destroyer of a peaceful mind is anger.
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You're either with me or you're not. And if you're not, you're out.
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Curtain! Fast music! Light! Ready for the last finale! Great! The show looks good, the show looks good!
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What's going on in the inside shows on the outside.
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I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it.
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I want to pick good projects, I want to work with great directors and try not to put too much pressure on myself and just read things for the story and recognize when I'm drawn to something for the right reasons and try to maintain some sanity. Sanity would be good. I'd like to have a little sanity!
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If you feel like there's something out there that you're supposed to be doing, if you have a passion for it, then stop wishing and just do it.
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My business issues are just that - business - and I deal with them like they are business.
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I think I'd be a great mom, honestly. I don't think I'll have any problem giving them all the love in the world. Discipline will be the hard part.
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Acknowledging your mistakes also has its pluses, but we often don't have trouble recalling or mulling over those. The point is, if you don't acknowledge your successes the same way you acknowledge your mistakes, you're sure to have a memory full of blunders.
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I get a lot of people telling me that I'd make a good 'wacky neighbor.' I wouldn't mind that, if it was a starting-off point.
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I wanted to make it a really strong point to not watch 'Battlestar Galactica' before starting 'Caprica' because I was afraid it was going to give me a lot of pressure and preconceived notions of what it was going to be like.
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The greatest benefit of being a solo performer is that it is seriously frightening, but at the same time very empowering. It's just you and the audience. All the weight is on you to deliver the songs.
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If I get too type-cast, that's the worst possible scenario.
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A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
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If I have to produce movies, direct movies, whatever to change the way Hollywood treats older women, I'll do it. If I have to bend the rules, I will. If I have to break them, I will.
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If you look at the US economy over the last 15-20 years wages have been stagnating or even declining.
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It is never safe to look into the future with eyes of fear.
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When the last days were upon me, and the ugly trifles of existence began to drive me to madness like the small drops of water torturers let fall ceaselessly upon one spot of their victim's body, I loved the irradiate refuge of sleep. In my dreams I found a little of the beauty I had vainly sought in life, and wandered through old gardens and enchanted woods.
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The fate of your paycheck, the fate of your small business should not rest on what side of the bed a Washington bureaucrat wakes up on.
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We are a small, interconnected world; that we are all safe or none of us are; that we are all well cared for or all at risk.
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I'm too small and too short. I thought that was odd; that should be a non-issue to me.
