John Hurt Quotes

Picasso was hugely innovative, and, wow, did he have facility, amazing ability, but I don't think he painted a masterpiece.

John Hurt

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.

John Adams

PowerGreatSoulBeyondWeakAlways

I think being a writer is being heavily attuned to the absolute absurdity of things you take for granted, and I think that having actual parents who lived through the Cultural Revolution who are also interested in literature, they're also very attuned to those moments.

Jenny Zhang

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I turn a lot of stuff down - big, big movies, the kind I wouldn't want to go to the cinema to see.

Matthew Fox

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I think that I find a lot of my healing out in the world.

Amanda Lindhout

HealingWorldThinkFindOutLot

The music I always liked as a kid was stuff I could bum out to and realize, 'Hey, someone else feels that way, too.' So if someone can do that with my music, it's mission accomplished.

Trent Reznor

MusicSomeoneMissionWayKidOut

In my business, guys may age, but it's not even a question they're valued. But women my age are supposed to disappear.

Mary Steenburgen

WomenBusinessAgeQuestionMay

Corn is an efficient way to get energy calories off the land and soybeans are an efficient way of getting protein off the land, so we've designed a food system that produces a lot of cheap corn and soybeans resulting in a lot of cheap fast food.

Michael Pollan

FoodEnergyFastWayFast FoodLand

The sense of smell explores; deleterious substances almost always have an unpleasant smell.

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

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I don't believe in creating exclusionary art.

Joss Whedon

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I love Maui.

Don Nelson

LoveI Love

I always try to communicate to our people that we can never make enough money. We can never make enough profit.

Douglas R. Oberhelman

MoneyPeopleEnoughProfitNever

I have 20 or 30 books completely plotted out in my mind - mysteries, thrillers, horror, romance, science fiction. You name it.

Christopher Paolini

ScienceMindNameYouHorrorOut

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