Holly Hunter Quotes
The rhythm of my career has always been very static, staccato and then silent, and then a lot of work, and then none.
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Whatever life lesson I'm going through at any point in my life, projects just somehow magically appear that help me work through it.
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The nations of Africa, as is true of every continent of the world, from time to time dispute among themselves. These quarrels must be confined to this continent and quarantined from the contamination of non-African interference.
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I thought of the soul as resembling a castle, formed of a single diamond or a very transparent crystal, and containing many rooms, just as in Heaven there are many mansions.
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I can't say I'm having trouble with my husband or that I have a stubborn child.
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I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
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We want to allow Costa Ricans to make a qualitative leap in our development and go to an economy based on innovation and developing a broadband infrastructure in order to overcome the barrier of 15 per cent penetration.
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'Vanity' means worthlessness.
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The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.
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International friendlies, they mean something, but what you want is to play on the biggest stage, play under the lights.
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Cambridge was the place for someone from the Colonies or the Dominions to go on to, and it was to the Cavendish Laboratory that one went to do physics.
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I tend to like simple music. And clever, succinct lyrics. Songs that don't try to be more than they need to to be effective, to stir up something emotionally within you.
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When you get to the point where you're established enough that people link you with something, especially being an action hero babe, it's awesome. Because then you can fight the battles and have the crossbows and wrestle with swords and ride the horses because you're already believable; people see you in that genre.
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To think is of itself to be useful; it is always and in all cases a striving toward God.
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You learn from the things that happen in your career. You get up and down. You never give up. All the things that happened in my career, thank God it happened early rather than late in my career.
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I'd like to be an actress when I'm older. I sometimes do improv. I used to do it with my dad.
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Violence is the first refuge of the violent.
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Am I a criminal? The world knows I'm not a criminal. What are they trying to put me in jail for? You've lost common sense in this society because of religious fanaticism and dogma.
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I always send new writers to 'Writer's Digest Books' line-up of how-to books. I read them all when I was starting out, and they were very helpful.
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When I wrote 'The Da Vinci Code,' I told myself that this story of Jesus makes more sense to me than the story I read in the Bible.
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My grandmother took me to church on Sunday all day long, every Sunday into the night. Then Monday evening was the missionary meeting. Tuesday evening was usher board meeting. Wednesday evening was prayer meeting. Thursday evening was visit the sick. Friday evening was choir practice. I mean, and at all those gatherings, we sang.
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I only make movies I want to go see.
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A work survives its readers; after a hundred or two hundred years, it is read by new readers who impose on it new modes of reading and interpretation. The work survives because of these interpretations, which are, in fact, resurrections: without them, there would be no work.
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He whose wisdom cannot help him, gets no good from being wise.
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The rhythm of my career has always been very static, staccato and then silent, and then a lot of work, and then none.
