Holly Hunter Quotes

In many parts, I start from the outside and then it triggers things within. For 'The Piano,' I went, 'I'm going to learn these piano pieces. I'm going to learn this sign language, and I'm going to do them all day every day, five days a week.' It was a totally physical thing.

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• My interest was directed, from my medical student days, to Immunology, and particularly to the mechanism of hypersensitivity. I had suffered from bronchial asthma as a child and had developed a deep curiosity in allergic phenomena.

  

  Baruj Benacerraf
  • Deep
  • Child
  • Curiosity

• If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice, or representation.

  

  Abigail Adams
  • Attention
  • Care
  • Voice

• I remember 'Def Comedy Jam' being a big deal and kids talking about it in school, but it was never, 'I want to do that.'

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • School
  • Kids
  • Remember

• War is the domain of physical exertion and suffering.

  

  Carl von Clausewitz
  • War
  • Suffering
  • Physical

• Basically, particularly in Britain, it's a hegemonic thing that people who write tend to come from the leisure classes. They can afford the time and the books.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • People
  • Time
  • Leisure

• Well, I always think the worst things are going to happen here, because I'm - basically inside, I'm a bad person, and so the bad kind of takes over.

  

  Larry David
  • Bad
  • Think
  • Kind

• Whatever one thinks of the wisdom of building a mosque near Ground Zero, this controversy now affords us an immense opportunity to examine who we are as a people. It provides us with the opportunity to get back to our foundational ideals, which have always stood as a beacon for the rest of the world.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • People
  • World
  • Opportunity

• Coming home to my family afterward makes the work richer, easier and more fun.

  

  Edie Falco
  • Work
  • Family
  • Home

• I'm not going to run away from my responsibilities.

  

  Carlos Mesa
  • Going
  • Run
  • Away

• I'm trying to get people to see that we are our brother's keeper. Red, white, black, brown or yellow, rich or poor, we all have the blues.

  

  B. B. King
  • People
  • Trying
  • Black

• My project was radiation damage of Si and Ge by energetic electrons, critical for the use of the recently developed semiconductor devices for applications in outer space.

  

  Walter Kohn
  • Space
  • Project
  • Outer Space

• Forbearance is the root of quietness and assurance forever.

  

  Ieyasu Tokugawa
  • Forever
  • Root
  • Assurance

• War seems to come out of nowhere, like rust that suddenly pops up on iron after a storm.

  

  Victor Davis Hanson
  • Up
  • War
  • Storm

• I would love to have the honor to get to work with Meryl Streep. I love her and I love her work.

  

  Bailee Madison
  • Work
  • Honor
  • Get

• I would like to see 'A Confederacy of Dunces' by John Kennedy Toole adapted.

  

  Tamara Feldman
  • Like
  • See
  • Would

• I think, you know, people think of the city of New Orleans as a parochial place where it's a lot of folks who are from there and a lot of big families, a lot of musical families, a lot of history, a lot of tradition, but I like to think of New Orleans as an idea.

  

  Irvin Mayfield
  • People
  • History
  • City

• I don't take vacations.

  

  Naomi Judd
  • Take
  • Vacations

• You may stifle your creativity by learning too much about processes that should be spontaneous and automatic.

  

  Damon Knight
  • May
  • You
  • Learning

• The times change, and if you don't change with them, you get left behind.

  

  Bradley Walsh

• I didn't grow up thinking to myself, 'Someday, if I play all my cards right, I can end up in a public institution with a lower approval rating than attorneys.'

  

  George Brauchler
  • Up
  • Thinking

• When I come up against a director who has a concept that I don't agree with, or maybe I just haven't thought of it or whatever, I'd be more prone to go with them than my own because I want to be out of control as an actor, I want them to have the control, otherwise it's going to become predictably my work, and that's not fun.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Up
  • Work
  • Fun

• Chermoula is a potent North African spice paste that is ideal for smearing on your favourite vegetables for roasting.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Vegetables
  • African
  • Spice

• Being an actor in Hollywood involves lots of things beyond acting. Charm really helps.

  

  Pierce Brosnan

• In many parts, I start from the outside and then it triggers things within. For 'The Piano,' I went, 'I'm going to learn these piano pieces. I'm going to learn this sign language, and I'm going to do them all day every day, five days a week.' It was a totally physical thing.

  

  Holly Hunter