Holly Hunter Quotes
I don't mind at all venturing off to do a television movie if it's gonna give me something new to mess around in my mind, to turn around in.
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I do not regret the part I have taken in a cause so just and interesting to mankind.
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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Who knows what would have become of me, if my parents had not had their influence on me.
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When I wrote 'The West Wing,' the juice behind it was that in popular culture, our leaders in government are generally portrayed as Machiavellian, or as idiots. I thought, well, how about writing about a group of hyper-competent people?
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The thing that I took away as an early fan from Bob Dylan was the storytelling aspects. He can tell some wicked stories.
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I am surprised people took so long to pick up on the fact that my contract expires at the end of this year. Eddie has to decide who he wants to drive, so there is no secret anywhere. I am not concerned. It does not sit with my objectives to be competitive.
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It was a pleasure to meet President Obama and Michelle. I'm not a political person, but I admire what he has done.
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My attitude to writing is like when you do wallpapering, you remember where all the little bits are that don't meet. And then your friends say: It's terrific!
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If you have more money than your lifestyle, then you can either do something stupid or smart. That's not much of a choice. That's like saying, 'You are on the roof. you can either take the elevator, or you can jump.' That's not a choice.
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I'm such a big TLC fan, so I love singing 'Waterfalls' in the shower.
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In Europe and the United States, you've got different systems to select candidates, and no system is perfect.
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Until the year 1967, it was a crime, for which you could be put in prison, to make homosexual love to someone in your own house. If they came in and caught you at it, you could be put into prison. This has changed - I'm talking about England, incidentally.
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When something startlingly new comes up, young people, especially, seize it. You can't complain about that. I think its heyday has passed, but it's had an effect and will continue to have an effect.
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The principle of responsibility and collective sanctions is incompatible with the Western concept of justice.
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Usually, I just don't care what I look like. If it's cold, I'm, like, putting on whatever I have to to be warm.
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I had decent but not great grades in high school because I was highly motivated in some subjects, like the arts, drama, English, and history, but in math and science I was a screw-up. Wooster saw something in me, and I really flourished there. I got into theatre, took photography and painting classes.
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It's fun being paid to read stuff and air your opinion about it - pretty much a dream job for a writer.
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At the risk of sounding like Virginia Woolf, I could live on £700 a year.
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I received an honorary doctorate for my work. Maybe one of these works is considered the equivalent of a Ph.D.
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I'm at a place where I want to have fun. I want to be challenged. I want to love the people I work with and continue to appreciate being in the position to work and play and explore.
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'T is sweet, as year by year we loseFriends out of sight, in faith to museHow grows in Paradise our store.
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I made a good living for a teenager. And I had to learn all different kinds of music - jazz, swing, Motown, pop - and that inspired what kind of music I started to write.
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I think music is an intuitive force. It's this beautiful wave that connects all of us and inspires us, and I think music has the ability - when you listen to a song, you're not immediately thinking about the lyrics or what's going on in the mind of the writer, you're feeling the song.
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I don't mind at all venturing off to do a television movie if it's gonna give me something new to mess around in my mind, to turn around in.
