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As Beckett said, it's not enough to die, one has to be forgotten as well.
John Hurt
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John Hurt
Age: 77 †
Born: 1940
Born: January 22
Died: 2017
Died: January 27
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Lotte Lenya was all emotion. She wasn't anything but emotion. She was not an intellectual.
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Once you've started to dig a hole, you can't get out of it.
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I stopped asking a long time ago, why would you want me to play that? I'm an actor. That's what I do.
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