Ed Harris Quotes
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I was shy. I was painfully shy, until fifth grade when I transferred to another school and befriended the class clown. And one day he was sick and I kinda stepped in for the class clown and I said, 'Wow, this is exciting, I'm a little bit nervous.'
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I feel like I'm going backwards, actually, as I get older. I'm regressing. I feel more and more like a kid, which is kind of a fun feeling.
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The more success you get, you start to be harder on yourself or more afraid of the looking glass. You have to learn to build a thicker skin because people are paying more attention.
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The scene changes but the aspirations of men of good will persist.
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I have the greatest love for the rituals of organised religion - the sense of community and belonging it can confer to people. But me, I'm more a questioner than a follower; not by whim or fashion, but as a decision painfully arrived at after much, much thought.
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Ancient Egyptians went to great lengths to avoid change; they couldn't entirely do so, of course, but did preserve a cultural continuity for almost four thousand years.
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I loved Alessandra Torre's 'Black Lies.'
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It's been a long slog back, and we've still got a long way to go.
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Some people are used to having things done for them by her parents, I am not. I can do it myself.
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Knowing constitutional law helps one at the opera. The trial in 'Billy Budd,' as example, invokes the fugitive slave clause of the U.S. Constitution.
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I think one of the great things about being a musician is that you never stop learning.
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The man who builds a factory builds a temple, that the man who works there worships there, and to each is due, not scorn and blame, but reverence and praise.
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Any country that wants to lower its mobile phone rates, all they need to do is bring in an aggressive player.
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At first, I was hesitant when it came to giving autographs, thinking that I am not even worth giving one. But slowly I got over that phase.
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Celtic music will always be around, even if with the mainstream crowds it dies out.
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For me, it was not destiny to make it to where I am now - I thought for a long- time I would become a go-kart mechanic, or a job like this, not an F1 driver.
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It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.
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The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.
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I grew up in a broken home.
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I can spend hours in a grocery store. I get so excited when I see food, I go crazy. I spend hours arranging my baskets so that everything fits in and nothing gets squashed. I'm really anal about it, actually.
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Acting is a very strange job.
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I feel that when you take the responsibility to host something, it is your job to make sure that all your guests are taken care of equally.
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I just wanted to play tennis. It wasn't a job. It was an ambition. I knew I could make money at it. I was 18 - old enough to think I could do it, young enough not to consider the consequences.
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I am not one of these guys who works job after job after job.
