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It's a great relief to feel that you're working with someone rather than for someone. You don't feel that you're being tested, as it were.
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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I put everything I can into the mulberry of my mind and hope that it is going to ferment and make a decent wine. How that process happens, I'm sorry to tell you I can't describe.
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If I hadn't been a part of [Harry Potter] I would have been deeply upset.
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The clergy is in the same business as actors, just a different department.
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