Errol Morris Quotes
I've been involved in doing advertising for various elections and I just couldn't see doing anti-Trump advertising in this election. My line has been, "How could you do anything worse that what he does himself?".
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The smartest thing I ever did as a writer was hire a retired conservation agent to blaze a hiking trail for me. It's nothing fancy - just a narrow path that meanders for a little over a mile through the woods near my home. But that trail through the trees has become my therapist, my personal trainer, and my best editor.
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Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.
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I believe that a man can only be useful to his country when he can look at it clearly.
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All disgust is originally disgust at touching.
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I'm obviously not an advocate of Christian America or a simplistic view of America as 'a city on a hill.'
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I always think of it in terms of music. You're not always going to be a huge rock star in music, but musicians can play until the day they die. With sports, it's different. You can't always do it until the very end, and that's a hard reality of sports.
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The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it.
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I just love writing. It's magical, it's somewhere else to go, it's somewhere much more dreadful, somewhere much more exciting. Somewhere I feel I belong, possibly more than in the so-called real world.
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They offered me one cover about 10 years ago, and I said, no, I can't do it. I'm happy to cover up now.
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I knew that I wanted to be an actor. Then it became about whether acting wanted me. So, I gave it a shot. It hasn't worked out too bad, so far.
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To be honest, I haven't had a lot of time off.
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I'm very interested in getting inside the heads of people society discards, people on the fringe, especially immigrant kids. We dismiss them without getting into details of who they are.
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This is yet another example of terrorists' cynical and callous disregard for human life.
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It appears that every man's insomnia is as different from his neighbours as are their daytime hopes and aspirations.
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My own opinion is that youthfulness of feeling is retained, as is youthfulness of appearance, by constant use of the intellect.
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Beauty is no local deity, like the Greek and Roman gods, but omnipresent.
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It struck me then how much the past - not just the past but history and family - was like the ocean tide. It was always the same ocean, but the waves made it fresh and new each time.
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We're born with success. It is only others who point out our failures, and what they attribute to us as failure.
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In my neighborhood, there are stray goats everywhere, and, someone owns it. Someone has a farm full of goats. At daytime, they just let them loose, but then at nighttime, they just come back. So, it's like, in daytime, the whole neighborhood is just filled with goats walking around.
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Always play for the worst case scenario..If it is the best you'll win anyway
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It's nice to have my mother as someone I can talk to about acting. My dad's a director, so when he comes to watch me on set, he think it's his set. He's always telling a production assistant, 'Can you get me five donuts?'
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I've been involved in doing advertising for various elections and I just couldn't see doing anti-Trump advertising in this election. My line has been, "How could you do anything worse that what he does himself?".
