Errol Morris Quotes
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I love reading religious authors. Especially in the sort of circle I move in, people tend to be more secular, and I love reading books by just really smart people of religious faith. It's always a really cool perspective.
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If you compare me to an actor, I'm probably one of the best boxers in the profession. But if you compare me as a boxer, I'm probably one of the best actors.
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You'd always see a lady or a little girl sitting at a piano. I decided I wanted to play something more unexpected, so that's when I got interested in learning to play the guitar.
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I ate better in Liberia than I did in Ohio.
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I'm not a singer. In 'Bye Bye Birdie,' I think I was the sad girl who sits on the park bench during 'Put on a Happy Face.'
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It's grueling never knowing if the audience is going to think you're funny. It's soul-destroying when they don't laugh.
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At the end of the day, yes, I'm looking to create a lot of wealth.
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The beauty of jazz is that it's malleable. People are addressing it to suit their own personalities.
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If it wasn't because of my high heels, I would still be in Coatzacoalcos with 10 children.
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You don't appreciate life until you get to the other side. Like lying in a hospital bed.
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In 1962 I wrote for 'Jazz News,' using the pseudonym Manfred Manne, which I picked because of a jazz drummer with that name. I later dropped the 'e.'
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From the outside, the CIA seems pretty exotic, but from the inside, it's a big, bureaucratic place. Think 'post office with spies.'
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I was on 'The O.C.' and had a small part, which wasn't very challenging. I was a bit bored, so I started shadowing directors and they finally gave me a shot. From there, it led to directing other television shows. I am trying to direct a feature film, so we'll see what happens.
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There is some humour in 'Family Values.' I don't want everyone to think it's not going to make them laugh. But there are quite a lot of poems there that aren't funny at all.
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Thanks to Twitter, iPads, BlackBerrys, voice-activated in-dash navigation systems, and a hundred other technologies that offer distraction anywhere, anytime, boredom has loosened its grip on us at last - that once-crushing 'weight' has become, for the most part, a memory.
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People were soon talking only of my bons mots, and they esteemed my wit so highly that the clergy was forced to publish a decree that forbade anyone to believe I was capable of reason, and it expressly commanded everyone of all ranks to believe - no matter how intelligently I might act - that I was guided by instinct.
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So many of my thoughts and feelings are shared by the English that England has turned into a second native land of the mind for me.
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I'm always shy and timid when I write in front of people.
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I've always enjoyed painting, but I went to teach in schools in Zimbabwe instead.
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You can't scale if you do it alone, you really need to work with others.
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I don't like the word 'urban' because I think it's a bit of a generalisation and they use it to class music, but I don't think it's a word that necessarily classes music.
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If you were my agent and I was making $10 million a movie and made four movies a year, that means you have a salary of $4 million.
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I used to work as a private detective years and years ago.
