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John Hurt

"I never quite understand why we watch the news. There doesn't really seem much point watching somebody tell you what the news is when you could quite easily listen to it on the radio."

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"I never quite understand why we watch the news. There doesn't really seem much point watching somebody tell you what the news is when you could quite easily listen to it on the radio."

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Donna Grant

"To the old, the new is usually bad news."

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Donna Grant

"The pressure to be timely with news has increased every year."

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Donna Grant

"Of, course it always cheers a news editor when a story has what we describe as 'legs' therefore it, erm, runs."

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Donna Grant

"I've done it with Broadcast News-where there was no finish line, there was no agenda that I had to move all the characters to this point, that I was sort of open to what happens."

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Donna Grant

"News, if unreported, has no impact. It might as well have not happened at all."

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Donna Grant

"We have a product for sale called news, and I'm a salesman."

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Donna Grant

"Nothing in fine print is ever good news."

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Donna Grant

"Anybody who claims to read the entire paper every day is either the world's fastest reader or the world's biggest liar."

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Donna Grant

"There have been at least three other cases in which federal agencies have succeeded in placing fake news reports on television during the Bush presidency. It was a really good tour. It seemed maybe about a week too long."

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Donna Grant

"Online, you have things like Slate Magazine, which has a lot of commentary and analysis of stories, so it gives you a fuller picture. I would compare that to a news magazine or the New Republic."

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John Hurt
"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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John Hurt
"Nudes are the greatest to paint. Everything you can find in a landscape or a still life or anything else is there: darkness and light, character dimension, texture. I painted heads too, of course."

Life

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John Hurt
"My parents felt that acting was far too insecure. Don't ask me what made them think that painting would be more secure."

Acting

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John Hurt
"My mother's father drank and her mother was an unhappy, neurotic woman, and I think she has lived all her life afraid of anyone who drinks for fear something like that might happen to her."

Life

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John Hurt
"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."

Hope

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John Hurt
"Pretending to be other people is my game and that to me is the essence of the whole business of acting."

Business

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John Hurt
"It's quite a dangerous career move to go wilfully on making films that may not find a distributor."

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John Hurt
"I am not an enormous believer in research being the be-all and end-all. I get suspicious when I read about actors spending six months in a clinic, say, in order to play someone who is sick."

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John Hurt
"If you do an interview in 1960, something it's bound to change by the year 2000. And if it doesn't, then there's something drastically wrong."

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John Hurt
"Also the wonderful thing about film, you can see light at the end of the tunnel. You did realise that it is going to come to an end at some stage."

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