Holly Hunter Quotes
I wouldn't even go spend the night at a friend's unless they had a piano. But I didn't have the chops, the extraordinary talent, to be able to play the piano professionally.
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Gut feeling is all about the experiences that you have had in your life. It is about being in difficult scenarios, knowing what worked, what did not work, and then taking a decision.
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Chris and Toby are far too sane to be upset any more.
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I am a certified yoga teacher and I love to cycle and swim.
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I'm thought to be a tough writer, but I'm really a softie.
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All theory of modernity in sociology suggests that the more modernity there is, the less religion. In my theory we can realize that this is wrong: atheism is only one belief system among many.
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The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control.
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America always pivots between collective responsibility and the idea that the individual can pull himself up by his bootstraps.
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I always felt that anorexia was the form of breakdown most readily available to adolescent girls.
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In Westerns you were permitted to kiss your horse but never your girl.
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As a species, we can at times be dimwitted and cruel. But we're also capable of learning.
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At many a moment on many a day, I am convinced that pro football must be a game for madmen, and I must be one of them.
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There are people who are born deaf and grow up deaf who don't speak at all, and some of them have told me that they resent a little bit that I do speak. But, you know, I have to be myself. I have to do what I'm comfortable doing.
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At first the English were very surprised by our disregarding the Hague Convention. But from 1916 onward they used at least as much poison as we did.
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To make a successful film from a successful play is probably much more difficult than making one from scratch, just as any carpenter will tell you that it is more difficult to restore an old house than to build a comparable new one.
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I'm not the same person I was. I used to act dumb. It was an act. I am 26 years old, and that act is no longer cute. It is not who I am, nor do I want to be that person for the young girls who looked up to me. I know now that I can make a difference, that I have the power to do that.
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I have heard of novels started in the middle, at the end, written in patches to be joined together later, but I have never felt the slightest desire to do this.
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I feel really blessed to first of all have the opportunity to do music, and second of all to have it be going well.
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Calm on the bosom of thy God,Fair spirit, rest thee now!
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I think it's embarrassing for our industry that we have such low diversity across senior-level management at all of the mainstream, top-tier venture capital firms.
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Tax crimes should be investigated by the tax bureau, not through secret police detention.
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If you're true to yourself, you just do what you do.
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I must thank my good friend Nigel Brennan. His strength of character in the midst of extreme hardship inspired me during the darkest days. Despite our separation, he always managed to find small ways to remind me that there are gentlemen in the world, even when I was surrounded by just the opposite.
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I wouldn't even go spend the night at a friend's unless they had a piano. But I didn't have the chops, the extraordinary talent, to be able to play the piano professionally.
