Marcia Gay Harden Quotes
Shakespeare set a lot of his dramas in a historical perspective or war perspective, or he would study what was going on at that time.
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Read some good, heavy, serious books just for discipline: Take yourself in hand and master yourself.
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Where having been an actor was extremely helpful to me was in casting. That's where I think a director who has acted can really shine, and casting is the most important thing you do.
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I personally don't like to rehearse so much. I really sort of trust my instinct.
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That attitude and toughness that we want to play with, that, to me, is the most critical thing.
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Tell people you're a Canadian or a Kiwi when you travel and they'll adore you.
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I just want to be part of great stories that are told and for them to be relevant.
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I have a lot of friends and fans in Canada and as a matter of fact I met a fan from there that came down to my office. It was nice and we took pictures and had a nice talk.
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I was born in 1952 in Chidambaram, an ancient temple town in Tamil Nadu best known for its temple of Nataraja, the lord of dance.
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Mister Cee's a legend, man.
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I'm a 'Blackadder' girl.
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Having a couple really great basics makes it easy to dress well every day.
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I played didgeridoo from a young age - on the vacuum cleaner, initially.
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I find myself really feeling like it's possible that maybe the greater contribution I'm going to be able to make through this next phase of my life might be as a writer writing wonderful parts for women, or even writing wonderful parts for myself, you know?
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I read 'The Shining' before I ever saw the movie, when I was maybe 12.
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As leaders, we become whole when we see that our focused, singular commitment to making the numbers and the metrics cannot be effective on its own, but only when it is part of the whole picture - only when we see that it takes more than metrics to make up the whole.
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The first reports of AIDS closely followed the inauguration of President Ronald Reagan, whose 'family values' agenda and alliance with Christian conservatives associated AIDS with deviance and sin.
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A lot of movies are made to make us dream.
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I'm going to try to do music for the rest of my life, but that's just trying. Maybe it's not going to work out. Who knows?
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I think art, more than anything else, helps humans to synthesize emotion and to synthesize parts of ourselves, so therefore, as an artist, I feel a responsibility to try and facilitate that synthesis.
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At a certain point in my career, I was probably having a difficult time 'holding space.' So you get a character that has to be commanding in order for him to resonate and make sense.
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In my day, the only people who achieved real independence were my father, Mary Pickford and Charles Chaplin, who, with D. W. Griffith, formed United Artists. Other than that, everybody belonged to the big studios. They had no say in their own careers.
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In polo, you jump on a horse and you play. To play tennis, you have to train every day. It's your legs that do all the work. In polo, it's the horses' legs.
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Constantly there's a credibility issue; you're judged on how you look. If you look good, people assume you aren't credible. It's a battle you'll always fight if you're on TV and a female.
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Shakespeare set a lot of his dramas in a historical perspective or war perspective, or he would study what was going on at that time.
