Errol Morris Quotes
There are artists who are very well known and many of us feel they should be less well known, while there are others who aren't well known and many feel deserve more attention.
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My father was a very gregarious, very open guy. So every weekend, the house was full of people.
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I teach my children that in life, there is no control of what tomorrow is going to bring. There really isn't. But in whatever it brings, we have choices, and I'm glad because I made more right choices than wrong, but in the wrong choices, there are lessons to be learned.
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If England became a world power, it was because of the industrial revolution.
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I take my kids to school... I make them breakfast. Unfortunately, dad is a big spoiler, and most days, I make four different breakfasts.
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As an actor, the first thing you're taught is, 'Don't look into the camera; ignore it.'
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Socialism is practical, in the best sense of the term; a living, vital force of inestimable value to society.
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You reach a point in your career when the weeks turn into a month or more of the phone not ringing.
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Islam has shown two faces to the Jews, one benevolent, one less so.
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Remember, either you control your money or it will control you.
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The purpose of sports - even foreign sports - is not to bore people.
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It's beneficial to play against your type; to be chameleon-like.
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The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.
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Out-of-step intellectuals like Noam Chomsky and the deceased Edward Said have often been dismissed as crazy extremists, 'anti-American,' and in Mr. Said's case even, absurdly, as apologists for Palestinian 'terrorism.'
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Being a pathfinder is to be willing to risk failure and still go on.
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He's the kind of man a woman would have to marry to get rid of.
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I guess John Wayne would be one. I just respected the way he acted.
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Who doesn't love a 'Lifetime' movie? I think that they know their audience so well.
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Tile is going to the landfill by the metric ton. All we have to do it gather it up, glue it down to the floor and grout it. Then you have a tile floor, and not just any tile floor: it's a mosaic of your own choosing.
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He who never leaves his country is full of prejudices.
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The stage is the last bastion of segregation.
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I approach the movies I make as a movie-lover as much as a movie-maker.
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A lot of locked-room mysteries take time for you to pay attention and see the setup. They aren't thrillers, and they don't move along. The modern mystery story is really faster-paced, and I think modern readers tend to prefer seeing something happening on every other page.
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But Sergio Leone invented totally the way of, you know, the details, the eyes, the hands - fantastic.
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There are artists who are very well known and many of us feel they should be less well known, while there are others who aren't well known and many feel deserve more attention.
