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I think you can get better in mathematics on a school level, but when you're talking about being a mathematician, I think that's definitely a gift of genes or whatever.
John Hurt
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John Hurt
Age: 77 †
Born: 1940
Born: January 22
Died: 2017
Died: January 27
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It's quite a dangerous career move to go wilfully on making films that may not find a distributor.
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If I hadn't been a part of [Harry Potter] I would have been deeply upset.
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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 was keen on sports-that's how my nose got this way. It's not actually broken the nose was just pushed up a little bit and moved over. It's an aquiline nose, quite Irish.
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I loathed school. I don't have an academic mind, and besides I was so bored by my teachers! How teachers can take a child's inventiveness and say yes, yes, in that pontifical way of theirs, and smother everything!
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I never had any ambition to be a star, or whatever it is called, and I'm still embarrassed at the word.
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