Ed Harris Quotes
One of the first things I learned about acting was, the only person you compete against is yourself.
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People said, 'How could you walk away from music?' But being a dad - there's nothing that can touch that.
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Buddhist practices offer a way of saying, 'Hey, come back over here, reconnect.' The only way that you'll actually wake up and have some freedom is if you have the capacity and courage to stay with the vulnerability and the discomfort.
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But you know, I always said that no one else on my block was on the radio, and it was fun.
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I'm an artist; I'm not going to use trigonometry.
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San Francisco lags behind other communities in providing a vital, vibrant and ecologically sustainable urban canopy, as well as open space in the city.
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I always regret leaving home if I don't get at least four or five surfs in the week before I leave. I try to be in the water as much as possible before leaving, and it's the one thing I miss massively.
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The way children are taught football doesn't encourage skill; the focus is on other areas.
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I used to think I needed a man to define myself. Not any more.
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The main thing for me is to make sure our home is peaceful, that it's healthy, that the kids are good.
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Going to rehearsals of school plays got me out of science. It became clear what inspired me and what dampened my spirit. The only other thing I could do at school was trampolining - it didn't seem to have much future in it.
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Buddhism has had a major effect on who I am and how I think about the world. What I have learned is that I like all religions, but only parts of them.
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I'm not interested in closure. Some people just have heart attacks and die, right? There's no closure.
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I had been keeping an off eye on the advertising field, thinking I might become an idea man and a copywriter.
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He told us he was going to take crime out of the streets. He did. He took it into the damn White House.
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I have learnt that I am me, that I can do the things that, as one might put it, me can do, but I cannot do the things that me would like to do.
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I think I'm very old-fashioned.
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I gain strength out of familiar surroundings.
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Some people ask me, Do they put aging makeup on you? It's just this very nice street makeup.
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The French are a smallish, monkey-looking bunch and not dressed any better, on average, than the citizens of Baltimore.
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I always had the feeling that Bleachers is my soul.
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Regarding 'Ferris Bueller,' I was in the Czech Republic once, in Prague, making a movie at the same time as Jeffrey Jones, who played the principal, who was making a different movie. The Super Bowl was going to be playing at this bar at midnight, so we decided we would go watch the Super Bowl at this bar at midnight in Prague together.
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One of the first things I learned about acting was, the only person you compete against is yourself.
