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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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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My life is a series of things that just happen.
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When you're serving at the local level, you have to build strong personal relationships to get things done.
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Ay - 'The Green Fool' business, the libel action over the head of it - did me a lot of damage. It destroyed the momentum.
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When you see violence in movies in general, it's very quick and painless, which isn't what it's like.
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Like anybody who grew up in the Eighties, I cringe at the thought of these movies being remade, because of the corniness and cheesiness of the originals.
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A lot of the themes of my movies, the actual stories, come from tabloid stories.
