William Hurt Quotes

If you're lucky, and not a lot of actors are these days, you get the chance to create a character.

William Hurt

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: March 20, 1950

Topics

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'Hedwig' is unabashedly analog.

John Cameron Mitchell

AnalogUnabashedly

Prudence is what makes someone a great commodities trader - the capacity to face reality squarely in the eye without allowing emotion or ego to get in the way. It's what is needed by every quarterback or battlefield general.

John Ortberg

GreatEyeEgoFaceRealitySomeone

Nobody can assume that, to a writer, everything is off-limits.

Ann Beattie

NobodyEverythingAssumeWriter

In reality, studies show that investments to spur renewable energy and boost energy efficiency generate far more jobs than oil and coal.

Jeff Goodell

EnergyRealityEfficiencyOilMore

The great man is he who does not lose his child's-heart.

Mencius

GreatManGreat ManLoseWhoHe

There is a huge difference between failing and failure. Failing is trying something that you learn doesn't work. Failure is throwing in the towel and giving up. True success comes from failing repeatedly and as quickly as possible, before your cash or your willpower runs out.

Jay Samit

WorkSuccessFailureLearnGiving

I'm not scared of anything.

Jon Jones

ScaredAnything

My grandfather was a commander in the Navy. He was very proud of his service, and he lived his entire life as though he was still serving.

Dean Cain

LifeServiceProudGrandfatherNavy

For me, you have to not have a formula. You have to not even sit down and say, 'I want to write right now.' It has to just kind of come out. It's not something you can plan.

Chris Daughtry

MePlanYouDownWantKind

I'm recording freely, and if I make a song, I release it immediately, so I'm more likely to believe in one song at a time as opposed to albums.

Chuck D

TimeSongBelieveMoreReleaseMake

Each time I left prison, I left with the resolve to get my life together, to get a job, to get back on track. And each time, the task became more and more and more daunting.

Susan Burton

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It's like being a bird, maybe, the perspective of flying over the Earth.

Peggy Whitson

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