Errol Morris Quotes
In fact, part of the Netflix series is drama.Beyond re-enactments. Why not invent something new?
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It is common knowledge that smoking is considered one of the nation's leading causes of preventable death, but it's less widely known that cigarettes are also the leading cause of fatal fires.
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I believe in books that do not go to a ready-made public. I'm looking for readers I would like to make. To win them, to create readers rather than to give something that readers are expecting. That would bore me to death.
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We are not saints, but we have kept our appointment. How many people can boast as much?
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If you eat something and get fat, you should be responsible for it. I think that is the attitude of the great majority of Americans, that you should be responsible for what you eat.
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It's very difficult when you have $1.50 per day to spend on food and drink, but for people who live this reality, that money also has to cover medical expenses and education, fuel and shelter - sometimes for an entire family.
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I think there's plenty of evidence that we need to stop spewing so much carbon into the air, that we're contributing to climate change and that we ought to look for alternatives.
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They say making laws is like making sausages. You shouldn't watch. It's the same for acting, especially for the actor who works unconsciously.
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On many accounts, Cornwall may be regarded as one of the most interesting counties of England, whether we regard it for its coast scenery, its products, or its antiquities.
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At times it is folly to hasten at other times, to delay. The wise do everything in its proper time.
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You got to be rigorous in your appraisal system. The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.
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All humans make mistakes. But there is no room or allowance in the fevered world of conspiracy theorists for mistakes, human errors, anomalies, or plain incompetence, though the latter, from the highest levels on down, is endemic to our society.
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Religion has a good place and it has its good people.
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The only kind of love worth having is the kind that goes on living and laughing and fighting and loving.
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If I've been indulging in rich foods, a cleanse is a wonderful way to hit the reset button.
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If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it.
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I did not write it. God wrote it. I merely did his dictation.
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You do take a beating in professional wrestling. But I love it.
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Our Earth is talking to us, and we must listen to it and decipher its message if we want to survive.
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The arts in every field - music, drama, sculpture, painting - we can learn to appreciate and enjoy. We need not be artists, but we should be able to appreciate the work of artists. (5 November 1958)
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I like period drama because everyone is so restrained, but they have all these emotions raging underneath.
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I started really young, like 12 or 13, and then I started doing school plays. We had a really good drama department, so the kind of drama-geek stigma wasn't really there in my high school.
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You can do without a woman but not a typewriter.
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A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. You must break out of your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown.
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In fact, part of the Netflix series is drama.Beyond re-enactments. Why not invent something new?
