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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Some of the authorities would like to remove rhythmic gymnastics from the list of Olympic sports and turn it into art. I think this would be wrong, as rhythmic gymnastics is a true sport - we train around six hours per day and sometimes spend entire days in the gym.
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Our little Spaceship Earth is only eight thousand miles in diameter, which is almost a negligible dimension in the great vastness of space.... Spaceship Earth was so extraordinarily well invented and designed that to our knowledge humans have been on board it for two million years not even knowing that they were on board a ship.
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I speak five languages besides mine. I went to school in Egypt because girls weren't allowed to go to school in Saudi Arabia. It's very restricting, especially for girls; we're not allowed to go anywhere.
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There is no absolute beginning to any story, after all. There is only the moment you begin watching.
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MS is terrible for anybody, and all of the stories are important.
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A lot of the themes of my movies, the actual stories, come from tabloid stories.
