John Hurt Quotes

I think people should be protected from being made to feel that they want to know what somebody famous had for breakfast.

John Hurt

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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We are comfortable with the fact that we cannot know personally what happened in the world before we were born, yet we are uncomfortable with the notion that we will stop engaging with time at some point in the future.

John Barton

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Our electoral process has created perverse incentives that have warped our democracy and empowered special interests and a vocal minority.

John Delaney

DemocracyProcessSpecialMinority

I made the first Moebius strip without knowing what it was.

Max Bill

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I didn't want to go down any scarier path of low self-esteem than I was already on the track for. So during my second year of college I was like, 'I'm over it! I have to go see what this other thing called life is about!'

Anna Chlumsky

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I found, through the process of doing 'The Perks of Being a Wallflower,' that I really love directing movies and I love writing books and so this will become the centerpiece of my career for the next ten or twenty years. Doing these adaptations.

Stephen Chbosky

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I started off at the Second City in Chicago... It's an improvisational theater that ostensibly does social and political satire, but when I was there, we generally didn't. We did character work, and we did just the silliest things we could think of. We weren't all that concerned with, you know, changing the world through mime.

Stephen Colbert

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I am Thomas Cromwell in the court of the Tudors.

Steve Bannon

I AmCourtAmThomas

If fishing is a religion, fly fishing is high church.

Tom Brokaw

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Ships are obliged to take on harbor or river pilots - who provide specialized local navigation - when they approach a port, but in the canal, a Suez crew is also obligatory. The crew members are there in case the ship needs to be moored during the canal transit, but this rarely happens.

Rose George

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We don't want to be reminded that life ends at some point, so they don't put older people on the screen.

Mary Steenburgen

LifePeopleWantPointScreenOlder

A person's fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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We are dealing with the greater challenges of globalisation. It is generating, in many cases, an increase in the levels of inequality in societies... that is undesirable.

Jose Angel Gurria

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