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 remember doing one of those computer careers tests. It told me I'd make an ideal HGV lorry driver because I've got 100 per cent spatial awareness. I'd be able to back them into tight parking spots.
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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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A person who has been punished is not less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment.
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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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I like doing what I do, but I like having the opportunity to do different things, and obviously comedy would be a fun jump. I've just been lucky enough to stay working. In my case, playing intense roles or playing character roles is something that people will hire me for, but yeah, I'd like somebody to think I'm funny. I guess we all do, right?
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It's that experienced eye that knows what the public loves and how to create that Hollywood magic that drives pop culture.
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I just go at my own pace and I like control of the TV and I like to decide when I take a shower and wash the dishes and stuff like that. So I don't know who would want to live with me to be honest!
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It's OK when something doesn't work. It gives you another data point when things do work.
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I would work until I got stuck, and I would put it down and pick up something else. I might be able to take a 20-minute nap and get to work again. That way, I was able to work about 10 hours a day... It was important to me to work every day. I managed to work on Christmas day, just to be able to say I worked 365 days a year.
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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.
