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?".

Errol Morris

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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.

  

  Tanith Lee
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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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• If incredible creatures like sharks can exist, why not Bigfoot? When I look at sharks, they're the most terrifying, monstrous, dinosaur-like things. To this day, I'm so fascinated by them and can't get my head around how they are on Planet Earth at all.

  

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• I don't read my books, I write them. Once I've finished the many years it usually takes me to write them, I can't bear to read them, because I've spent too long with them already. I'm not advertising them very well, am I?

  

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• I'm tired of advertising! I'm looking for new solutions that make people laugh and amuse. Italian creativity is too narrow, it still hasn't overcome the dichotomy limits between heaven and hell.

  

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• The room was not impressively large, even by Manhattan apartment-house standards, but its accumulated furnishings might have lent a snug appearance to a banquet hall in Valhalla.

  

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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?".

  

  Errol Morris
  • Advertising
  • Elections