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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I wrote fiction during my entire childhood, from age 4 to 18, and started writing plays when I went to Yale and Oxford.
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On the comedy side of what I love as a filmmaker are Richard Pryor, Lenny Bruce, and Eddie Murphy; those are my favorites.
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Never confuse faith, or belief - of any kind - with something even remotely intellectual.
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That President Mohammad Khatami's policies have been blocked is the bitterest incident in the contemporary Iranian history. This means that the wishes of millions of people who voted for Khatami and called for freedom and justice have been ignored... Why should cultural activities and journalism be so risky in Iran?
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What does it mean to believe rather than to know? To surrender to something that's not fact but faith?
