Holly Hunter Quotes

Sometimes you have to marinate instead of making a quick decision. I appreciate my instincts, but my instincts can be dead wrong. Circumspection can give you time.

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• If I'm not writing well, I'm not happy. If I'm not spending enough time with my family, I'm not happy. If I'm not connecting to friends or if I don't work out enough... You get the point. Everything has to be balanced. Nothing should be an extreme.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Time
  • Work
  • Writing

• We must adjust our value systems and work to modify today's societies, in which economic interests are carried to the extreme and irrationally produce not merely objects, but weapons of war. These societies don't care about the destruction of the planet and mankind as long as they earn profits - it can't go on like this.

  

  Laura Esquivel
  • Work
  • Long
  • War

• Only the consciousness of a purpose that is mightier than any man and worthy of all men can fortify and inspirit and compose the souls of men.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • Men
  • Man
  • Purpose

• I've been in movies with Meryl Streep, Jack Nicholson - but I was on 'The Simpsons,' and finally, in the eyes of my children, I was a star.

  

  Ed Begley, Jr.
  • Children
  • Eyes
  • Star

• We need to have women in more powerful positions that are making decisions, so when that 10-year-old girl is looking up and wondering, 'What can I do and what do I want to be when I get older?' She has the opportunity to do and be whatever she wants.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Up
  • Women
  • She

• I'm a darned good listener.

  

  Naomi Judd
  • Good
  • Listener
  • Darned

• When I was on a major label I felt obliged to say yes to every interview, tour and whatever else. The label is always telling you, 'This ain't going to last,' so I worked myself half to death. I learnt from that and I like to pace myself now.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • Death
  • Myself
  • Always

• You can't heal what you don't acknowledge.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • You
  • Acknowledge
  • Heal

• Trans people deserve something vital; they deserve your respect. From that respect comes a more compassionate community.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • People
  • Community
  • Respect

• What I have yet to see is a real woman choose a younger man because he spent six hours a day at the gym trying to sculpt his abs.

  

  Candace Bushnell
  • Real
  • Trying
  • Man

• When you're editing, you're putting it together in a way that makes sense metaphysically. You're not inventing it, but you're finding the story that's there. You're making a play that's eventually going to go on stage and present itself to an audience. You want to show what happened, not exactly what you have evidence of happening.

  

  D. A. Pennebaker
  • Together
  • Present
  • Story

• Emotions get in the way but they don't pay me to start crying at the loss of 269 lives. They pay me to put some perspective on the situation.

  

  Ted Koppel
  • Way
  • Perspective
  • Situation

• There is a story which is not being told strongly enough of the Afghan employees of the UN inside the country who are saving hundreds of thousands of lives everyday by their bravery and nobody talks of them.

  

  Lakhdar Brahimi
  • Country
  • Story
  • Everyday

• There's always ideas buzzing around, but it's whether they actually end up materialising into a song.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Up
  • Song
  • Ideas

• I never had those dreams of making the Olympics. Never.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Never
  • Dreams
  • Olympics

• Clothes have memories, and sometimes you don't want to remember. People remember where they bought the clothes, who gave them, or where they stole them from.

  

  Sam Worthington
  • People
  • Remember
  • Memories

• I admired anyone who could unsettle people.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • People
  • Anyone
  • Admired

• It's been a dream of mine to run my own summer camp. I went to one as a kid, and I put on productions, and got lots of confidence.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Dream
  • Confidence
  • Summer

• I like shows where, like, there's a team that they're against the world.

  

  Ken Marino
  • World
  • Team

• For me, honesty is a huge thing, and loyalty, when it comes to relationships.

  

  Lauren Jauregui Fifth Harmony
  • Honesty
  • Loyalty

• I know it's superficial, and you can't measure art, which is supposed to be up to the individual, but I've watched the Oscars since I was a baby with my mother.

  

  Kerry Condon
  • Up
  • Art
  • Mother

• I want to thank myself. Forty-five years ago, I graduated from the University of Ottawa and had a few career opportunities available, but I chose television and I've never, ever regretted that decision.

  

  Alex Trebek
  • Career
  • Decision
  • University

• He would rather lose his power for doing right, than keep his power by doing wrong. Because he loves his people more than he loves his office.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • People
  • Power

• Sometimes you have to marinate instead of making a quick decision. I appreciate my instincts, but my instincts can be dead wrong. Circumspection can give you time.

  

  Holly Hunter
  • Time
  • Decision