J.L. Hunt Quotes

It really hit home that my parents felt as though they didn't have to worry anymore. They realized if you could win an Oscar, that was a good sign.

People are always casting me for what they call my 'authority.

When I was 16, nobody else talked like me. Nobody else sounded like me.

For a while, I thought, maybe I should direct, until I got to New York and saw the stupidity of that idea. If it's hard to get into acting, what is it like for a woman to become a director?

I have a surfboard that says 'Linda Hunt Choice TV Actress: Action.' I am an action star! I don't know what that is about, but I like it.

And that does concern me, because we're not getting enough back for our taxes that we're paying. I think we really have to look at the whole sort of area.

I am a toggler. I always have three or four projects going, short stories alongside novels and essays. When one project is terrible, there's somewhere else hopeful to look.

The Dark Dark is a far slower project, clearly, and that's a relief. I look for slowness anywhere I can find it.

My father thought a novel was a broken short story. There's something to that. Many of my favorite novels are novellas. The authors of brief things must reckon with the precision of language.

I became a writer because I am the youngest of six children. I listen; I observe. I'm camouflaged as a moth. Mothers are unseen. It helps me write.

In writing I found a way to make silence and to be silent. The short story has a lot more silence than the novel and that is its success.

I am surprisingly optimistic, though lately that's been hard to maintain. Art and slow, small, close gestures help remind me of my optimism.

The lion's share of my work is revision, 85%? I revise forever, combing over lines, listening and listening to them in different hours and moods so that I feel they are finally right for me.

There's a voice when I write. I speak everything aloud. My family is so accustomed to me talking to myself that often times they don't answer me when I am trying to speak to one of them.

Not many people like him, he's an angry man. He'd go after his own shadow.

Designing your product for monetization first, and people second will probably leave you with neither.

Inspiration is nothing without work.

It's impossible to make a picture without values. Values are the basis. If they are not, tell me what is the basis.

There's lots of fun in this world, after all. And if there isn't, there is in the next. And we're going there, sure.

Nature is economical. She puts her lights and darks only where she needs them.

When an artist leaves his work to amuse people, he loses his time and their respect. If people are to be amused by artists, it must be by employing them in their legitimate occupation.

How are things visible? Can you see an egg against a white background? Not by drawing a line around it can you make it evident.

I don't like persuaded sitters. I never could paint a cat if the cat had any scruples, religious, superstitious, or otherwise, about sitting.

What is nobler than a man wresting and wringing his bread from the stubborn soil by the sweat of his brow and the break of his back for his wife and children!

I’d have been dead a long time ago if not for my friends, one of whom had just jumped off the cliff after me. I’d have been a lot more appreciative if he hadn’t pushed me first." ~Cassandra Palmer

Suffering often draws us closer to God. Instead of being a sign of God's punishment or distance, suffering can purify us, lead us into the heart of God, and transform our souls.

Physical strength doesn't mean a damn thing when you're all cut up and bleeding inside.

Even if things aren't going the way we want right now, we will always get through it.

What was the opposite of linkage blindness? What described being certain of something without any kind of evidence?.

You can only write what you know if you've lived, otherwise, you'll just be writing words.

Why do the living assume the dead know better than we do?Like they gained some knowledge by dying, but why wouldn’t they just be the same confused people they were before they died?

Everybody is a genius but if you judge a fish by its able to climb a tree it will live its whole life believing it is stupid.

Still, the painful death of that unicorn had been satisfying to watch

No book is really worth reading at the age of 10 which is not equally worth reading at the age of 50.

If you come away with me, I can promise you pain and disgrace, ” I said. “But I will love you like no other can.

The bonds of friendship dwindle with age, Oliver. But a little blackmail lasts forever.

The mother of goodwill is freewill, if untainted by evil.

Women will one day rule the world, and when they do, their brains will be so finely tuned from all the years of quiet that I anticipate they will be far superior rulers to men.

Religions need women. Who else would do all the work?

Do not sell your soul for a bucketful of pleasures and temptations. It’s God’s priceless gift to you.

Faith - The most precious asset you can build up for all generations.

Start a revolution. Love thy neighbor.

Rationale still remains the greatest impediment to encountering God's mysteries.

If God in all of His infinite power and love were real to us, the opinions of men, either for or against us, and the honor or dishonor they may bestow would shrink into nothingness in comparison.

Historically, nature has been very good at surprising us.

...I wondered why so much had been written about love's pain and so little about the glorious relief of being delivered from love's pain.

Max, you cannot stay in the background forever. It is time to stand out in front. You have all that you need.” Analea

You have been gifted the Blood Diamond and are surrounded by all that is good. You will not fail as long as you believe.” Analea

Sometimes, the answer is right outside your door...so open it & see things in a new light

There's nothing greater than having a heart filled with love...& eyes filled with light:-)