Marcia Gay Harden Quotes
I relate to people and roles that are about the arc of human experience, things that everyday people deal with every day.
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I feel fine as long I'm not running around.
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I'm a regular person. I know a lot of people love being famous. I don't like it. I'm just chillin'. YouknowwhatI'msayin'?
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Mostly people are ignorant, what is the language of painting. You know, they're ignorant. It is so difficult to make them aware, but time will teach them.
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I like hip-hop, but I don't like concerts. There's, like, sweat on people's backs.
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I've got quite a good poker face. I'm known for being able to keep my emotions very much in check: no one knows how I'm feeling. I can be winning or losing but keep it very much the same.
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I tramped. When I was on the freight trains, I wasn't looking for work. I was looking to go from place to place without paying any money.
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The film 'Tapped' illustrates quite clearly how we've been getting 'soaked' for years by the bottled water industry.
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You want private education for your students? No problem whatsoever; pay for it.
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I think that we should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe and believe to be fraught with death, unless they so imminently threaten immediate interference with the lawful and pressing purposes of the law that an immediate check is required to save the country.
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I want to tour, everywhere I can, all of the world.
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In the British Special Air Service, combat fitness is all about running.
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I told myself, 'I am teaching entrepreneurship, so I should be an entrepreneur myself.'
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I think it's much harder to have a long dialogue scene than an action scene. An action scene is long, but it's not really hard. It's kind of boring, really. It looks good at the end, but to shoot it, it's not the most exciting thing.
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And we have done more in the two and a half years that I've been in here than the previous 43 Presidents to uphold that principle, whether it's ending 'don't ask, don't tell,' making sure that gay and lesbian partners can visit each other in hospitals, making sure that federal benefits can be provided to same-sex couples.
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If I don't eat something after I work out, I get shaky and cranky - not a good combination when you're a television host.
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Americans are good at pursuing happiness. And the Americans who pursue happiness most diligently show that we're also good at running it down and killing it.
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I am a very active audience member. I want to be moved. I want to be confronted. I want to feel.
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I mean, the problem is, I think I'm a great writer.
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Musical theater is an American genre. It started really, in America, as a combination of jazz and operetta; most of the great musical theater writers in the golden era are American. I think that to do a musical is a very American thing to me.
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The pursuit of pretty formulas and neat theorems can no doubt quickly degenerate into a silly vice, but so can the quest for austere generalities which are so very general indeed that they are incapable of application to any particular.
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When people start comparing him with (Michael) Jordan then that's not a fair comparison. Jordan was a far more superior player in a very tough league, he was very creative. That's not taking away anything from LeBron because he is a great player, but it is not a fair comparison because Jordan is a far superior player.
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I want my wife and children to travel always with me and share good things and bad things. That's what the family is for.
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My aim in life isn't so much the pursuit of happiness as the happiness of pursuit.
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I relate to people and roles that are about the arc of human experience, things that everyday people deal with every day.
