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I find it difficult to say, like which child do you prefer the most, and its a sort of surface choice. I've never known how to quite answer that one adequately.
John Hurt
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John Hurt
Age: 77 †
Born: 1940
Born: January 22
Died: 2017
Died: January 27
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Anything which retains interest is optimistic. When the characters become disinterested, it's pessimistic. Does that make sense?
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If you listen, you learn if you talk, you don't.
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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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We're all far too afraid of being so arrogant to say Either you can or you can't.
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