Holly Hunter Quotes
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Help the man-in-the-street make sense of the bewildering.
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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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Both my parents are Scottish, and although I grew up in Canada after moving over, all of my family are proud to be Scots.
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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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I'm not a writer. I'm not smart. I couldn't possibly even write my own story.
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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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...you have to cherish the world at the same time that you struggle to endure it.
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There is a false moral imperative that seems to be all-around us that treatment of depression, the medications and so on, are an artifice, and that it's not natural. And I think that's very misguided. It would be natural for people's teeth to fall out, but there is nobody militating against toothpaste, at least not in my circles.
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You can also make explicit certain social problems which, again, would be prejudged or not encountered at all in real life, because people have set up defenses against it. Fantasy allows you to get past defenses.
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I would say that for the sake of human progress, the best thing we could possibly do would be to diminish, to the point of eliminating, religious faiths. But certainly not eliminating the natural yearnings of our species or the asking of these great questions.
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My life has a great degree of dimension without making movies.
