Holly Hunter Quotes
What does it mean to believe rather than to know? To surrender to something that's not fact but faith?
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I always ask, why can't I be just like Cary Grant or something.
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Nationalism in Norway was very strong in 1905, that we must be free of Sweden. But I must say, I'm not 100 percent sure that was a wise decision. We had the war; we were occupied by Germans from 1940 to '45. And if there had been one Scandinavian country, then it would not have been so very easy probably to go ahead with the occupation.
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Some of the wives didn't keep up with the program. It started breaking apart during the Apollo days.
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Katie Holmes is really amazing.
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Being at the Apollo, I was always starstruck.
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I really believe great actors, even with disease and age, can be great.
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The Schindler Jews were off-limits in Brunnlitz.
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I thought I'd be doing weird, Off Broadway theater after I graduated.
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I'd prefer to be good, but I'm not always. I struggle.
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One of the strange things about violent and authoritarian regimes is they don't like the glare of negative publicity.
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Progress in civilization has been accompanied by progress in cookery.
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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I grew up in an all-female family - two sisters and a mostly single mother - and we often bonded, in part, by disparaging men and feeling superior to them.
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An art aims, above all, at producing something beautiful which affects not our feelings but the organ of pure contemplation, our imagination.
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Everyone is going to have to step up to the plate.
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I grew up with 'Star Trek,' so to get to do anything in it was fun for me.
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I hope to do big action movies and strong dramas, and to produce films. I also want to get kids more involved in what's going on in the world and to be politically active.
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Forty-five years ago, when I was 18, I came to San Francisco by boat and took two weeks to get here. I had a great impression. I think San Francisco is the welcoming gate for people from Asia.
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It's a prizefight. Get off the stool, take your beating, go back to your corner, rest, and take a beating again. Believe in your own talent. Marry well.
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I believe you can remember the future as much as the past
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Afghanistan remains an opportunity to deal al Qaeda a vital strategic blow, especially since we have abandoned all operations - including counterterrorism operations - in Iraq.
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When I did 'Parent Trap,' I was ten. I was thrown off by the whole fame thing.
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It was dawn now on Long Island and we went about opening the rest of the windows downstairs, filling the house with gray-turning, gold-turning light. The Shadow of a tree fell abruptly across the dew and ghostly birds began to sing among the blue leaves. There was a slow, pleasant movement in the air, scarcely a wind, promising a cool, lovely day.
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What does it mean to believe rather than to know? To surrender to something that's not fact but faith?
