Errol Morris Quotes
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Music was a big outlet for me. Being able to play an instrument and sing was definitely a good way for me to escape things I was dealing with: family issues, growing up, being a kid and not knowing what I wanted to do with my life.
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Happiness is precious, and so I prefer to keep mine private. In a world where everyone shares everything, I can think of a lot of happy moments, but they're mine.
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Books are up against TV and movies and video games and a multimedia society that is so busy that people don't have contemplative time any more. I worry deeply about this. In fact, I worry about everything all the time. I used to be a punk. All I wanted to do was tear everything down, and that was so much easier.
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What any writer hopes for is that the reader will stick with you to the end of the contract and that there is a level of submission on the reader's part.
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I'm not sad at all about turning 40.
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Also, now as a result of that show being on, the cruise industry is just growing all over the place. Princess Cruises, who I now represent, is the fastest growning cruise line in the world.
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My career is chequered. Then I think I got pigeon-holed in humour; Shakespeare is not my thing.
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I think it's interesting: What is the generational effect of the experience of being a gay person in America? For my generation, it was very difficult.
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The social network is the paradigm of the modern service application.
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It's always good to be working.
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Novel writing wrecks homes.
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When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.
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I still get mad. I still get upset. But I let it go more quickly.
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I'm more scared of parking by a parking meter than vampires because one of them is real and adversely affects my life and results in a $35 fine, and one is nonsense.
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I grew up as a fan of comic books, and I've been reading them for so long that I've never felt an affinity toward just one.
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I had a very difficult relationship with my father, which ended up okay, but there were many difficult years.
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The hardest part about being a woman is figuring out what to wear.
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I don't think about it. I have always been linked up with everybody.
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When he was in school he longed to be out, and when he was out he longed to be in. On the way he thought about coming home, and coming home he thought about going. Wherever he was he wished he were somewhere else, and when he got there he wondered why he'd even bothered.
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Writers talk about the agony of writing; I talk about the agony of not writing.
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If you go into any department store these days, your picture is probably taken 30 times. In London there are 500,000 cameras in public spaces. You have no expectation of privacy in public spaces.
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I actually interviewed other people about myself, and that alerted me to the fact that I had to really investigate my memories.
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A lot of the themes of my movies, the actual stories, come from tabloid stories.
