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If the desire to write is not accompanied by actual writing, then the desire must be not to write.


Hugh Prather

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HUGH JACKMAN The difference between Marilyn Monroe and the early Pamela Anderson is not that great.
HUGH HEFNER The difference between Marilyn Monroe and the early Pamela Anderson is not that great. What's am...
HUGH HEFNER The glory of American television is Dennis Franz.
HUGH LAURIE I think good-looking people seldom make good television. And American television studios almost conc...
HUGH LAURIE What's amazing is that the taste of American men and international tastes in terms of beauty hav...
HUGH HEFNER I do like to do TV work when it's firing on all cylinders.
HUGH DILLON I think the part of my acting career where I've been more successful, I've been incredibly c...
HUGH GRANT Don't play for safety - it's the most dangerous thing in the world.
HUGH WALPOLE Something about teaching is curiously attractive, actually. I don't know what it is.
HUGH GRANT My life is every moment of my life. It is not a culmination of the past.
HUGH LEONARD It dawned on me that acting was what I wanted to do with my life. Nothing had ever touched my heart ...
HUGH JACKMAN I'm finding it increasingly difficult to simply walk down the street. In New York, I dashed in t...
HUGH LAURIE The people who had the most impact on me when I was young were Freud and Darwin, but growing up I al...
HUGH HEFNER