Marcia Gay Harden Quotes
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I was a little girl fighting as a partisan against Nazi-Fascism.
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My father got me involved in the game when I was four years old.
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I love playing live, I don't like studios all that much. I need the reaction of the audience.
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People just decided I was an R&B artist because I'm black.
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I believe that of all the things I have done, exciting though many of them have been, there's no doubt in my mind that the most worthwhile have been the establishing of schools and hospitals, and the rebuilding of monasteries in the mountains.
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To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious. There are far worse things awaiting man than death.
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There's nothing wrong with constructive criticism, and I learn from that and better myself. I'm not expecting anyone to be sycophantic in any way; I never expected that.
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I'm a novelist, not a social scientist or a commentator.
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If you're not kind, then you won't be attractive to me personally because that spirit shines through and makes people attractive.
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I have accumulated so many experiences, so much, that I want to be able to realize so many things. This is why I have basically given up most of my positions.
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I think comedy is one of the hardest things to do.
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I was a huge fan of comedy and movies and TV growing up, and I was able to memorize and mimic a lot of things, not realizing that that meant I probably wanted to be an actor. I just really, really amused myself and my friends with memorizing entire George Carlin or Steve Martin albums.
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We may define therapy as a search for value.
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I'm a dilettante. My governing word is 'curiosity.'
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Design can successfully bind the ancient nomadic cultures with today's global marketplace, ensuring the preservation of traditions and knowledge for further generations. This aspect of research is obviously rich in its business potential as well.
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I came down to Orange because I sold the Smothers Brothers a song called 'Chocolate,' and that gave me enough money to move down here. I was washing windows down in Orange County when they called me up and said they wanted me to do their TV show.
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I've always been attracted to action stuff.
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I do confess to being the exasperated, bossy, know-it-all, overachieving big sister.
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Those who want to cut Social Security are prepared to take hostages, manufacture crises, and use scare tactics to undermine the retirement security of Americans.
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We've done amazing things for the state. Some of them have had a national impact, but I'm going to be ready for some new challenges, and so I'm not going to seek a fifth term as attorney general.
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I'm not the most powerful. I'm not the fastest. I don't have the best arm. I don't have any of that, but put it all together and do the little details well, and you're going to be a very productive player.
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It's certainly true that I was brought up in that British amateur tradition, the one which always held that if you were reasonably good at cricket, knew one or two Latin texts and a few zingy Oscar Wilde quotes for dinner parties, you were pretty much ready to go and run some outpost in Hindustan.
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If people are telling you a story about themselves, they gradually map their own local territories and know themselves by them.
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Everybody says 'Good Morning' in Harlem because it's true! And that's lovely.
