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"Better give a shilling than lend and lose half a crown."
"Misers makes money their lord, but the spenders makes it their slaves and servants."
"Rich People plan for three generationsPoor people plan for Saturday night."
"An intelligent investor sees an opportunity in dip than risk."
"We'll have a public power authority, which will also have the ability to build power or finance power. And more importantly, we'll have more power than our economy provides. All of that will give us leverage we don't have today."
"Financial regulatory reform is one of the top legislative priorities of the Obama Administration."
"The problem of how we finance the welfare state should not obscure a separate issue: if each person thinks he has an inalienable right to welfare, no matter what happens to the world, that's not equity, it's just creating a society where you can't ask anything of people."
Explore more quotes by John Hurt
"It's quite a dangerous career move to go wilfully on making films that may not find a distributor."
"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."
"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."
"I mark a script like an exam, and I try not to do anything under 50 per cent. Similarly with the part. And also film is a peculiar thing, parts don't necessarily read in script form anything like as well as they can do when it comes to materialising."
"My parents felt that acting was far too insecure. Don't ask me what made them think that painting would be more secure."
"I never had any ambition to be a star, or whatever it is called, and I'm still embarrassed at the word."
"I remember once when I told Lindsay Anderson at a party that acting was just a sophisticated way of playing cowboys and Indians he almost had a fit."
"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."
"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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