Holly Hunter Quotes

There's no way that anyone can know the ebb and flow of one's career. You can't know that. You can tell young actors it's going to be very difficult, but there's no way you can understand the difficulties and the rewards through description. You have to cellularly experience it.

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• Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you really are.

  

  Felix Baumgartner
  • Up
  • High
  • Small

• One can never know enough. The unknown and its call lies even in what we know.

  

  Eduardo Chillida
  • Know
  • Never
  • Lies

• It was in India that I started my acting career, courtesy of my parents, long before I set foot on stage in England. They headed a company of travelling players performing Shakespeare up and down the land.

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • Up
  • Long
  • Career

• Every group has its idiosyncrasies, but at a certain point we all are human.

  

  D. L. Hughley
  • Human
  • Point
  • Group

• I wanted to experience New York, to look up and see buildings.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Up
  • Experience
  • Look

• I like the dark undertow of grime, and it gets me aggressive. You need that aggression.

  

  Adam Peaty
  • Dark
  • Aggressive
  • Aggression

• One element of Madonna's career that really takes center stage is how many times she's reinvented herself. It's easier to stay in one look, one comfort zone, one musical style. It's inspiring to see someone whose only predictable quality is being unpredictable.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • She
  • Career
  • Style

• Increasing inequality in income distribution in this country has broader policy implications, and there is also the growing problem of perverse incentives that result from executives receiving grossly disproportionate compensation based on decisions they themselves take.

  

  Barney Frank
  • Country
  • Growing
  • Decisions

• Yeah, I'm old as the hills and you would think I'd be out to pasture someplace because I've done everything, but nothing has changed.

  

  Barry Manilow
  • Done
  • Think
  • You

• We'll only be playing four new songs live, but all the material for the next album is basically finished.

  

  Daisy Berkowitz
  • Live
  • New
  • Four

• It's amazing that this is still news to people, but that affects the final outcome of the film. When people are treated well, and they're made to feel valued, they give 110 percent.

  

  Adam Arkin
  • People
  • Amazing
  • News

• My music is very innovative, in a class by itself. Nobody else is saying anything of value. What I'm trying to do is get people to think, to alter their consciousness. It's not your typical platinum formula for success.

  

  Wendy O. Williams
  • People
  • Music
  • Trying

• People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • People
  • World
  • Character

• It's never crowded along the extra mile.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Never
  • Crowded
  • Mile

• When you have an engagement, at least in my world, the world that I create for myself, an engagement doesn't begin when you hit the stage and end when you leave the stage. It begins when you hit the city limits, and it ends when you leave the city limits.

  

  Utah Phillips
  • World
  • City
  • Myself

• The modern assault on the environment began about 50 years ago, during and immediately after World War II.

  

  Barry Commoner
  • World
  • War
  • Environment

• Beware, all too often we say what we hear others say. We think what we are told that we think. We see what we are permitted to see. Worse, we see what we are told that we see.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Think
  • See
  • Hear

• To win a championship, you have to have a little bit of luck on your side.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • You
  • Win
  • Luck

• Do nothing immoderate.

  

  Chilon of Sparta
  • Immoderate

• If you look at NBC, two of their most successful shows - '30 Rock' and 'Parks And Rec' - are written by women, produced by women, and I think that's the future. Women are the new men.

  

  Natasha Leggero
  • Men
  • Women
  • Future

• I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures.

  

  Earl Warren
  • People
  • Man
  • Sports

• Qué te he dado, lo sé. Qué has recibido, no lo sé.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• I've had an experience that... I don't know the right label to put to it, if it was an angel or Jesus or what. Nobody knows anything for sure about that, but I know that I had an encounter, and I know that things exist beyond this realm, most definitely. I'm grounded in that.

  

  Phyllis Smith
  • Experience
  • Jesus
  • Angel

• There's no way that anyone can know the ebb and flow of one's career. You can't know that. You can tell young actors it's going to be very difficult, but there's no way you can understand the difficulties and the rewards through description. You have to cellularly experience it.

  

  Holly Hunter
  • Experience
  • Career