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John Hurt Quotes

As Beckett said, it's not enough to die, one has to be forgotten as well.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actor
Nationality: british
Birth: January 22, 1940 - January 25, 2017

Topics

Die Enough Said Forgotten Well

As far as working with actors, I feel very comfortable working in that aspect of directing.

Feel Comfortable Working Far I Feel

I live by Edith Wharton's rule to get rid of anything neither useful nor beautiful. So I put the TV out on the street.

Live Beautiful Street Out Anything

It's a diabolical business. I can't imagine how hellish it must be to be hounded like Amy Winehouse and people like that. I have a little peripheral place on the outskirts of celebrity, when I go to premieres and that sort of stuff, which is as close as I want to get.

Business People Place Go Want Get

I'm very much looking forward to relentlessly focusing on ensuring an excellent guest experience, removing unnecessary complexity from our operations, championing innovation, and pursuing our mission of making better food accessible to more people.

Innovation Food Experience People

The worst thing for an actor is a director that gets on your nerves and says things that actually confuse you.

You Actor Worst Director Things

The only defense is offense, which means that you have to kill more women and children more quickly than the enemy if you wish to save yourselves.

Stanley Baldwin

Women Children Wish You Enemy More

The greatest promotion I ever had on a newspaper was when 'The Washington Post' suddenly promoted me from city-side general assignment reporter to Latin American correspondent and sent me off to Cuba. Fidel Castro had just come to power. It was a very exciting assignment, but also very serious.

Power Me American Promotion Serious

When push comes to shove, I'm a fighter, and I'm going to force someone to fight. It takes a lot of technique, it takes a lot of skill, but to take that, and make something of it, it's a lot of heart and a lot of determination, and that's something I have. That's who I am.

Determination Heart Fight I Am Push

We used to get published a lot. And there was this vodka advertisement... it embarrassed me a lot afterwards.

Me Embarrassed Used Get Published

Technology has aided in serious advancements so that HIV detection tests now have near-perfect results. And those tests can detect HIV in the blood an average of nine to 11 days post-infection.

Technology Results Serious Now Blood

Such fire was not by water to be drowned, nor he his nature changed by changing ground.

Ludovico Ariosto

Nature Water Fire Ground Changing

If I was to direct a movie about a super-confident guy, first of all I would hate that character. I can do a super-confident guy who crashes and burns and has to rebuild himself as somebody humble. But a super-confident guy that just gets more confident and gets the girl and the money and more success? That's not interesting.

Louis Leterrier

Success Girl Character Humble Hate

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