Hurd Quotes & Sayings

Ten Downing Street is a house, not an office. That is its most important characteristic. — Douglas Hurd

The more accountable I can make you, the easier it is for you to show you're a great performer. — Mark V. Hurd

I may be wrong in that, but not I think in putting the questions. In our modern democracy the government needs not a unanimous but a general support for war before it orders our forces to fight. — Douglas Hurd

Our job is to execute. — Mark V. Hurd

Silence arrests flight, so that in its refuge, the need to flee the chaos of noise diminishes. We let the world creep closer, we drop to our knees, as if to let the heart, like a small animal, get its legs on the ground. — Barbara Hurd

I'd rather have it right than right now. — Gale Anne Hurd

Leave a trail worth following." Darcy Creech, Peter Beaton — Holly Hurd

We need to temper the idea that this company has to have some earthshaking event every 15 minutes. — Mark V. Hurd

We, Britain and Germany, can neither of us be happy about our handling of the Iraq war. — Douglas Hurd

I knew that we'd have a big following because the graphic novel [ The Walking Dead] is so popular, and I knew that with Frank Darabont and Gale Ann Hurd at the helm that we were doing something very special. — Laurie Holden

I'm not dark; I'm not. The main thing I consider in accepting a role is less the tone of the movie and more whether I think it's a good film, whether I like the character and whether I think I could do it. I don't think, 'Oh, I've done X amount of dark films.' — Rachel Hurd-Wood

I love comedy, but it has to be hysterical and really amusing; I'm not really a big fan of romantic comedies, in fact I can't stand them. I'm really more of a fan of 'Team America' and 'Dodgeball.' — Rachel Hurd-Wood

We must admit that history is enjoyable to a large extent because it enables us to pass judgement on the past. — Douglas Hurd

There is no consensus even today on the merits of Napoleon - and certainly no agreement on the rights and wrongs of the origins of the First World War. — Douglas Hurd

But Germany will always suffer, I fear, from the intensely dramatic character of the crimes of the Third Reich. — Douglas Hurd

As a kid at school, I had a lot of really good teachers and I had a lot of really bad teachers, and I just know how much of an impact those can have on a young child. To be one of the good teachers - I want to have that kind of impact. — Rachel Hurd-Wood

My interest in Women in Film came from attending the Crystal Awards in 1998 where Meryl Streep and producers Gale Anne Hurd and Lucy Fisher were honored with the annual award. — Sharon Lawrence

It is normal for politicians in all countries to profess themselves the pupils of history, anxious to draw the right lessons from her teaching. — Douglas Hurd

Going into a cave might be like going inside one's own mind, crawling around in the pitch-black, nook-and-crannied labyrinth of the human psyche. — Barbara Hurd

I've always been a fan of sci-fi, fantasy, and horror. I like working with larger-than-life characters in fascinating worlds - places where the rules are different. — Gale Anne Hurd

British diplomats, constantly exposed to American political-ethical rhetoric, find their professional skills tested to the limits by the need to keep a straight face. For illustrations of what I mean, study the photographs of the expressions worn by Mr Douglas Hurd at any international conference involving all the Western allies. — Conor Cruise O'Brien

People are very interested in politics, they just don't like it labelled politics. — Douglas Hurd

A really irritating thing when you're watching a film is if somebody's accent isn't bang-on - it distracts you from getting into the story because you're thinking: 'Where are they from?' — Rachel Hurd-Wood

We should be wary of politicians who profess to follow history while only noticing those signposts of history that point in the direction which they themselves already favour. — Douglas Hurd

I've been a victim in every film I have done so far. It would be nice to play someone who doesn't get killed for once. Then again, I am getting really good at screaming and fake tears. — Rachel Hurd-Wood

I'm a huge historical fiction and non-fiction fan. — Gale Anne Hurd

We tend to be more environmental at home than at work, regardless of the industry we're in. — Gale Anne Hurd

I had a vision and made it happen.- Christina Lari, Olivia & Owen — Holly Hurd

Wisely used history can give pleasure and provide us with a useful tool; but we should not become its slaves. — Douglas Hurd

There is nothing false or arrogant about German pride in German technical and business skills. — Douglas Hurd

It's more important to get the right writer and the right take than it is to do something in a particular timeframe. — Gale Anne Hurd

The first two Prime Ministers whom I served, Ted Heath and Margaret Thatcher drew strikingly different lessons from the Second World War. — Douglas Hurd

Caves so often symbolize rebirth. It's a hidden space, an expected, inscrutable space. Strange things live in there - eyeless salamanders, albino fish, a prophet's epiphanies. — Barbara Hurd

Despite this lamentable lack of balance in our education I do not believe that either children or adults in my country are permeated by a widespread hostility to Germany. — Douglas Hurd

I've always liked drama; I've always found it really fun, like, I did go to drama club and things like that. — Rachel Hurd-Wood

Diplomacy is unfashionable in the world of knee-jerk reaction and the dogmatic sound bite on television. — Douglas Hurd

It privileges certain forms of religion at the expense of the rest of the world's religious and spiritual practices, enacting a series of "mini-establishments" in the process. It — Elizabeth Shakman Hurd

I love that I have my own business and I can't wait to tell Charlie when she's old enough that I did it all with her as my inspiration.-Carla Palmer, Cheekie Charlie — Holly Hurd

You don't want people to look at something and think that was a fantastic special effect. — Gale Anne Hurd

There are thus great swathes of the past where understanding is more important and reputable than judgement, because the principal actors performed in line with the ideas and values of that time, not of ours. — Douglas Hurd

...the future is closed to us; were it not, life would be insupportable, as only uncertainty admits of hope — Stanley Michael Hurd

Some people find it difficult to argue with a woman Prime Minister and shrivel up. — Douglas Hurd

It is me. The monsters that ripped me from my bed, the smiles of my babies and the man in the sky-that is who I am. — Juliana Hurd

I just like the comic book sensibility. If I can turn them into films and TV series, that's just icing on the cake. — Gale Anne Hurd

People know they are lacking something, they are constantly wanting some kind of spiritual guidance. — Douglas Hurd

I'm just attracted to the action element of science fiction. It's great to sit in the editing room with the director and sound engineers and to create the feeling where your heart is racing and you're sitting at the edge of your seat and you find yourself holding your breath. — Gale Anne Hurd

I would really like to play someone contemporary, as I've done lots of period pieces. I would love to play an American bimbo or a grimy Londoner. But I'm probably more suited in people's minds to playing a corseted victim. — Rachel Hurd-Wood

I'm sick of having red hair, but people seem to like that aesthetic. — Rachel Hurd-Wood

But it cannot follow that because weapons and troops are now being deployed we are bound to go to war. — Douglas Hurd

No military timetable should compel war when a successful outcome, namely a disarmed Iraq may be feasible without war, for example by allowing more time to the UN inspectors. — Douglas Hurd

'English Rose' - what does that actually mean? That I am pale? That I am English, maybe? They are going to say that about any actress from this country! — Rachel Hurd-Wood

I just want you to be motivated by the magnitude of the opportunity. — Mark V. Hurd

I don't believe in ghosts. — Rachel Hurd-Wood

I also love the zombie genre, my zombie fandom going way back to 'Night of the Living Dead.' And 'The Walking Dead' is truly the ultimate representation of that sensibility in the comic book genre. — Gale Anne Hurd

It was essentially for self defence that we went to war in Afghanistan and would go to war in Iraq. — Douglas Hurd

If Margaret Thatcher had been Prime Minister at the time, there would have been no Treaty of Maastricht. — Douglas Hurd

The most important step in the whole process was to just sit down and do it. My hobby has become a second career. Who knew?-Jamie Beck, Romance Novelist — Holly Hurd

I had worked for others for many years and didn't like the idea of someone else holding my future in their hands; it was time to do something on my own.- Jerri Graham, Nothin' But Granola — Holly Hurd

The more I use a matrix, the easier I make it to blame someone else. — Mark V. Hurd

I live in Surrey, but up until the age of eight I lived in London. And the way I heard about this 'Peter Pan' film was there was an open-call audition that I'd heard about, or read about, and I just thought, 'Oh, I'll go along for the fun.' Because I never dreamed in a million years I'd ever get it. — Rachel Hurd-Wood

Water Source and earthbound substance in endless theme and variation. There is need of rest, renewal and appreciation of the ever-changing landscape. — Lynne Hurd Bryant

Filmmaking is a business and at the bottom line people who don't make fiscally responsible decisions end up going into another line of work. — Gale Anne Hurd

A lot of producers now are people who stay in their office and never go to the set. I don't know how you can be the advocate of the movie if you're not there in it every day. — Gale Anne Hurd

The answer is already no, if you don't ask the question. — Darryl Hurd

The best thing about having my own company is that I get to go to my kids' school events. I make my own schedule. I make my own destiny. - Allison Krongard, Wall Candy Arts — Holly Hurd

Things in the margins, including humans who wander there, are often on the brink of becoming someone else, or something else, whose memory may not include the significance of old markers. — Barbara Hurd

In short: just say NO TO DRUGS, and maybe you won't end up like the Hurd people. — Linus Torvalds

A lot of my films have dealt with the dark side of technology and stress that you have to examine the ramifications of progress. — Gale Anne Hurd

The tragedy of 9/11 galvanised the American superpower into action, leaving us in Europe divided in its wake. — Douglas Hurd

When I told my sister, who was a fashion designer in college, what I wanted to do, she said I was crazy. But once I got started, I couldn't turn back. Kimberly Goodwin, Snapping Turtle Kids — Holly Hurd

Margaret Thatcher was fearful of German unification because she believed that this would bring an immediate and formidable increase of economic strength to a Germany which was already the strongest economic partner in Europe. — Douglas Hurd

It was never my goal to be an actor. — Rachel Hurd-Wood

Great leaders don't play by the existing rules. — Mark V. Hurd

It depends on how it is done but what we are drifting into, which is that people grow up without any sense of a spiritual dimension to life, is just impoverishing. — Douglas Hurd

War on Iraq runs the risk of turning the Middle East into an inexhaustible recruiting ground for anti- western terrorism. — Douglas Hurd

I've always loved comic books, which is why I've done films like 'Hulk' and 'The Punishers.' — Gale Anne Hurd

Silence is regarded as a sort of sin now, and it has to be filled with a lot of gossip and soundbites. — Douglas Hurd

Sleep deprivation is an illegal torture method outlawed by the Geneva Convention and international courts, but most of us do it to ourselves. — Ryan Hurd

I haven't given up me and I get to be a big part of my girls' lives. It's an amazing feeling that what I put into my business, I get out of it.- Jennifer Saint Jean, Itty Bitty Bag Company — Holly Hurd

I think that comic followers are always waiting for key iconic moments. — Gale Anne Hurd

A genuinely democratic Iraq might well act as a fresh spur. — Douglas Hurd

What's so wonderful about 'The Walking Dead' is that we're able to explore human nature in its most depraved as well as its most humanitarian in each episode. — Gale Anne Hurd

Margaret Thatcher, growing up in a bombed and battered Britain, derived a distrust which has grown with the years not just of Germany but of all continental Europe. — Douglas Hurd

Men like Hitler and Stalin and their immediate lieutenants cannot plead in defence of their actions that these were justified by the accepted values of that time. — Douglas Hurd

Prison is an expensive way of making bad people worse. — Douglas Hurd

I'm uncomfortable with the limelight. I'm not the type to go to the places where I know I'll be seen. I'd rather keep a low profile. — Rachel Hurd-Wood

To love a swamp, however, is to love what is muted and marginal, what exists in the shadows, what shoulders its way out of mud and scurries along the damp edges of what is most commonly praised. And sometimes its invisibility is a blessing. Swamps and bogs are places of transition and wild growth, breeding grounds, experimental labs where organisms and ideas have the luxury of being out of the spotlight, where the imagination can mutate and mate, send tendrils into and out of the water. — Barbara Hurd

In a swamp, as in meditation, you begin to glimpse how elusive, how inherently insubstantial, how fleeting our thoughts are, our identities. There is magic in this moist world, in how the mind lets go, slips into sleepy water, circles and nuzzles the banks of palmetto and wild iris, how it seeps across dreams, smears them into the upright world, rots the wood of treasure chests, welcomes the body home. — Barbara Hurd

When someone gets a job, it better be clear what they did to get it. — Mark V. Hurd