Marcia Gay Harden Quotes
I just never wanted to be too much in the background. I always wanted to be a part of things.
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Limit to courage? There is no limit to courage.
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I've always thought that I'm sexy in my own right, but not in a way that people thought was bankable.
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Republicans many times can't get the words 'equality of opportunity' out of their mouths. Their lips do not form that way.
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When I first started out, I was a bad actor.
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The last Pan Am Games in 2011 was one of the best experiences in my career. It was the first time women's boxing was in the Pan Am Games and any major games, and I had the opportunity to box in the first women's boxing fight and then went on to win gold.
Mandy Bujold -
My childhood began, as everybody's childhood begins, with prejudices. Man finds prejudices beside his cradle, puts them from him a little in the course of his career, and often, alas! takes to them again in his old age.
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You have to respect your audience. Without them, you're essentially standing alone, singing to yourself.
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People weren't buying as many records. My record company did not want me. I went through three record companies, went on tour at the wrong time. It destroyed me.
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I quite like being who I am.
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Confidence is the most beautiful thing you can possess.
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Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is.
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When people say 'American soccer,' they think of the U.S. national team. But American soccer also includes Major League Soccer, and until we have a league that produces players at the rate other leagues around the world do, I don't believe we'll ever get to where we want to be.
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The question I asked Georges has now become a general one - You, who thought you were superfluous, who thought there was no place for you in society, not only are you not superfluous, you are needed and so those who were beggars become givers.
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After working with clothes for so long, it seemed right to design them.
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Les Miserables is one of my favorite stories.
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Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.
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He punched me. If that's his best punch, he'll be in trouble some day.
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For a long time, I thought it was all down to dedication, hard work, and visualising doing well - that worked for a bit, but then it stopped. I've realised you have to be more practical and mature to make things actually happen.
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If I were going to teach a course, it would be called Don't Breathe Your Own Exhaust.
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The basic idea that if you increase government spending or you cut people's taxes that stimulates the economy and lowers the unemployment rate, is a very widely accepted idea. It's in every economics textbook, that's what we teach our undergraduates, and I certainly try to teach them the truth.
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When things aren't working out, we have a tendency to say, 'Go do other things,' but you shouldn't do other things. You need to stay at your desk and continue to try to write. You need to insist on it.
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I often think about the many remarkable things that my personal computer can do which I never ask it to do. I probably use a small fraction of its capabilities. I often wonder if the same dynamic occurs with our capacity for creativity.
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I just never wanted to be too much in the background. I always wanted to be a part of things.
