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.
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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.
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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.'
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War is the domain of physical exertion and suffering.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Coming home to my family afterward makes the work richer, easier and more fun.
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I'm not going to run away from my responsibilities.
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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.
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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.
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Forbearance is the root of quietness and assurance forever.
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War seems to come out of nowhere, like rust that suddenly pops up on iron after a storm.
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I would love to have the honor to get to work with Meryl Streep. I love her and I love her work.
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I would like to see 'A Confederacy of Dunces' by John Kennedy Toole adapted.
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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.
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I don't take vacations.
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You may stifle your creativity by learning too much about processes that should be spontaneous and automatic.
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I like L.A., but it's just too many people in the same business everywhere you go. You lose perspective.
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Movies in general are more generic. If something sells just make more. That's Hollywood.
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The message is going to be the same. It's very simple. We're either going to turn to each other or on each other.
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I believe that the quintessential task of every painter in any time has been to concentrate on the essential.
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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.
