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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Oh, I've become immune to the Booker. I think we need something a little more like the Pulitzer prize, where there isn't this great race.
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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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Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper.
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I think the responsibility that any actor has is to bring some truth to the work.
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We need our highest judicial body to stop this childish bickering and get back to debating the kinds of weighty constitutional issues that have absorbed the court in recent years, such as whether a city can legally force an exotic dancer to cover her entire nipple, or just the part that pokes out.
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We can't stop a baby in Africa from starving to death... but we can afford enough technology and weaponry to blow the world up a million times over.
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The early pictures of me you see online, in just T-shirts and hoodies - I'm still that guy with the hoodie. But what you don't get to see in most of those pics is that I had these red clogs on that had, like, eyeballs on the ends of them that I drew on. That speaks a little bit more to what I was going after, stylistically.
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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.
