Marcia Gay Harden Quotes

I always wanted to be in movies.

Marcia Gay Harden

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• To write our constitution is for the past, the present, and the future to come together all at once in one single motion, in one single heave, one single cry. For we correct the errors of the past and chart a new course for the future, based on the experience of the present.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • Experience
  • Together
  • Future

• We are all Adam's children - it's just the skin that makes all the difference.

  

  Navjot Singh Sidhu
  • Children
  • Difference
  • Skin

• Luckily for both the tech industry and Hollywood, there is only one thing that counts - use of the Internet is still growing exponentially, as consumers shift to digital everything from analog.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Growing
  • Internet
  • Digital

• I don't spend any time at all thinking about my personal wealth. I suppose if I had nothing, I might think, 'I have nothing.'

  

  B. Wayne Hughes
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Wealth

• The amount of death terror experienced is closely related to the amount of life unlived.

  

  Irvin D. Yalom
  • Life
  • Death
  • Terror

• I understand that sometimes when you're young it's difficult to remember the difference between real life and what is part of fantasy.

  

  Dakota Blue Richards
  • Life
  • Real
  • Remember

• I think The Doors are one of the classic groups, and I think we're all tempted to feel like the time in which we grew up was somehow special, but I really do believe that there were two golden eras in music: The Forties and Fifties of big band, jazz and swing, and the Sixties and Seventies of rock. To me, they're really unparalleled.

  

  Edgar Winter
  • Up
  • Time
  • Music

• I'd played in about four or five bands before we started up, only a couple of which did club dates.

  

  Daisy Berkowitz
  • Up
  • Couple
  • Before

• The first comic I ever read was an 'X-Men' themed anti-smoking PSA they gave out in health class when I was about 10.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Men
  • Health
  • First

• Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense?

  

  Patrick Henry
  • Trust
  • Last
  • Trusted

• Competition and competitive rhetoric can be healthy. It's what drove the United States to pursue the Soviet Union into space, creating countless innovations along the way.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Space
  • Competition
  • Healthy

• At the beginning of my career I was going through a really weird phase of dressing in boys clothes. I would only wear one American Apparel T-shirt and shorts and brogues the whole year round. Not the same T-shirt, obviously, but one style of American Apparel T-shirt. I think I was going through a tomboy stage.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • American
  • Career
  • Style

• History shows us that people are terrible about guessing what is going to happen - next week, next month, and especially next year.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • People
  • History
  • Year

• Historic changes and challenges. Breakthroughs in human knowledge and opportunity. And yet, for vast numbers across the globe, the daily realities have not altered.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • Opportunity
  • Knowledge
  • Daily

• The reality of marriage as the union of a mother and a father is grounded in our very biology.

  

  Salvatore J. Cordileone
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Reality

• A court which yields to the popular will thereby licenses itself to practice despotism, for there can be no assurance that it will not on another occasion indulge its own will.

  

  Felix Frankfurter
  • Practice
  • Popular

• All secrets are deep. All secrets become dark. That's in the nature of secrets.

  

  Cory Doctorow
  • Nature
  • Dark
  • Deep

• And God help you if you are a phoenix, and you dare to rise up from the ash.A thousand eyes will smolder with jealousy, while you're just flying past.

  

  Ani DiFranco
  • Up
  • God
  • Help

• And yet, just as our body would burst asunder if the pressure of the atmosphere were removed from it, so would the arrogance of men expand, if not to the point of bursting then to that of the most unbridled folly, indeed madness, if the pressure of want, toil, calamity and frustration were removed from their life. One can even say that we require at all times a certain quantity of care or sorrow or want, as a ship requires ballast, in order to keep on a straight course.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Men
  • Order
  • Frustration

• If I had the opportunity to say a fine word to all the young people of America, it would be this: Don't think too much about yourselves. Try to cultivate the habit of thinking of others; this will reward you. Nourish your minds by good reading, constant reading. Discover what your lifework is, work in which you can do most good, in which you can be happiest. Be unafraid in all things when you know you are in the right.

  

  Charles William Eliot
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• My only way of getting my uncles' attention or aunts' attention or whoever's attention was by dancing and singing around the house.

  

  Becky G
  • House
  • Attention
  • Singing

• I mean, if we try to 'fluff up' 'Nikita?' We're done. If we try to 'fluff' 'Nikita,' I don't want to be involved and I don't want to watch the show.

  

  Maggie Q
  • Up
  • Done
  • Want

• Second, there are so many magical places in books that you can't go to, like Hogwarts and Middle Earth, so I wanted to set a story in a place where children can actually go.

  

  Cornelia Funke
  • Children
  • Earth

• I always wanted to be in movies.

  

  Marcia Gay Harden