Holly Hunter Quotes
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You don't have to be desperate. Never be desperate. That is my slogan.
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If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.
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I feel that after all those horrible reviews and jokes, I wasn't crazy all these years to stand up for the music I believe in. This album has proven that somewhere in the human race, the human heart is still racing and breaking and I am so grateful.
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Sometimes a chord on a guitar will somehow spur some thought in your head, and you will write a song about it.
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The way women today are treated in Saudi Arabia is a direct result of the education our children, boys and girls, receive at school.
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Tremendous changes are taking place in our country, eradicating the concept of second-class citizenship.
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I don't ever want anything to come in the way of me truthfully telling a story.
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Whatever notoriety Fall Out Boy used to have prevents me from having the ability to start over from the bottom again.
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Giving people some kind of control over what they do is important. Human beings don't do their best work under conditions of control.
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If you don't have a unique voice, then you're not really a writer.
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If you turn the other cheek, you can be enslaved for 1,000 years.
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The only ones who like Milton Berle are his mother - and the public.
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Democracies can't handle austerity measures very well.
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You forget that sometimes comedy is just a big night out for people. Almost every show, people come up to me and go, 'This is the first comedy show I've ever seen,' so you want to do well. If you do horribly at somebody's first time seeing live stand-up, well, you've not only tainted yourself, you've tainted a whole art form.
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Someone once said that you can make the choice between getting old and getting creepy, and I think getting old is the way to go.
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A system of education is not one thing, nor does it have a single definite object, nor is it a mere matter of schools. Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men.
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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Hair is also a problem. I remember once, when I was reporting from Beirut at the height of the civil war, someone wrote in to the BBC complaining about my appearance.
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What to an outsider will be no more than the vigorous presentation of a conviction, to an employee may be the manifestation of a determination which it is not safe to thwart.
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The truth is, sometimes too much can happen in a relationship, and then there's nothing anyone can do or say. It's broken.
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Lyrics are so important, I hate every second of writing them, but it's something I take great pride in when it's finished.
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And this is how I sometimes think of myself, as a great explorer who has discovered some extraordinary land from which he can never return to give his knowledge to the world: but the name of this land is hell.
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In real life, I wish I could do a Scourgify. That would just be incredible helpful, when I know the rest of the family is gong to be back in 30 seconds and I haven't tidied up. That would be really helpful.
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My life has a great degree of dimension without making movies.
