Ed Harris Quotes
I chose films made by people I wanted to work with, about subject matter I thought was intriguing.
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There is no button that you push and the next day you become independent.
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I've always really been interested in the Pygmalion myth and both what it has to say about creativity and what it has to say about relationships between men and women.
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When we don't have information, we go to the simplest outlook, to black and white. But then we have to lie to ourselves. Black is never as black as you're painting it and white is never as white.
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How lucky are we to have Naomi Watts and Sean Penn playing us? We've seen the final cut now a couple times, and the scenes with the marriage fraying at the edges are still very difficult to watch. However, our hope was that no matter your political persuasion, you're taken with the idea that it's important to hold power in check.
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Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.
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When we read fiction, we want to get outside of ourselves and are able to see from a perspective we haven't seen through before. That can be very powerful.
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When I was a kid in Michigan, I used to play ball with a town team on Sunday. Of course, I'd go to church first. Played the church organ, as a matter of fact.
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Fuel conservation is as important as fuel production.
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Everybody in the black community must organize, and then we decide whether we will have alliance with other people or not, but not until we are organized.
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All of the characters in my films, they share one commonality. It doesn't matter whether they are good or bad, it doesn't matter whether they are smart or stupid, these characters all take responsibility for their own behavior. I'm much the same.
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It took me just three months to pick up Hindi. I guess I'm a fast learner when it comes to languages.
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God doesn't know things. He is things.
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Some people feel that what we're doing makes no sense, that it's just a waste of money. But it's working.
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For many children, the library represents their only access to books, reading, and the Internet outside of their home. If you think about how far behind a child would be without access to these fundamental tools - tools that are vital to successful employment later in life - it's a travesty.
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The day I leave Paris is the day I go down a level or quit football.
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There is no one true church.
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You have, in America, you have gang signs. Well, 5,000 years ago, there was thing called a mudra, which is your sitting position when you do yoga or you're meditating or you're praying or whatever. And there's not a lot of them that are named after gods and goddesses, but the middle-finger is specifically named the Matangi mudra.
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Countries with higher levels of gender equality have higher economic growth. Companies with more women on their boards have higher returns. Peace agreements that include women are more successful. Parliaments with more women take up a wider range of issues - including health, education, anti-discrimination, and child support.
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People would say to me, 'Who do you want to be as an artist?' And I would just look at them because I didn't know.
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As an architect you design for the present, with an awareness of the past, for a future which is essentially unknown.
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I was interested in Armstrong to begin with because he is the most important figure in Jazz in the 20th Century. There's simply no question about it. I mean, if you're going to compare him to somebody, it's Shakespeare in terms of centrality of the tradition, in being at the beginning of it.
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The world record will come to me when I run the world record race. I'm just trying to perfect my race. I'm looking for perfection.
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Was a sunny day, not a cloud in the sky. Not a negative word was heard.
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I chose films made by people I wanted to work with, about subject matter I thought was intriguing.
