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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Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.
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There is no easy fix or youth unemployment. Partnership between the public and private sectors can make a big difference.
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As yet we use our media only for selling things - including, of course, political candidates. What will happen when someone masters the art of selling souls?
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Postmodern photography implies the exhaustion of the image universe: it suggests that a photographer can find more than enough images already existing in the world without the bother of making new ones.
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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?".
