Marcia Gay Harden Quotes

Whether you win or not, the night the Oscars are over, the curtain goes down and you go back to the grind. Period.

Marcia Gay Harden

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• I've always liked stories. I'm always reading, ever since I was a kid. I've always been reading and wanting to be in some other world. This is the perfect job for me.

  

  Garrett Dillahunt
  • World
  • Job
  • Perfect

• I feel quite excited about the possibility of working on multiple albums. There's something really iconic about having a catalog featuring a lot of albums, and I'd love to have that legacy.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Working
  • Legacy
  • Possibility

• The colonel replied that he didn't care how my men had got the job done. He was happy that it had been accomplished. He said that, obviously, no matter how much or how little I knew technically, I was able to get the best out of people I worked with.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • People
  • Men
  • Done

• When I find the right information, the Web is a blessing; when I don't, it's a distraction.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • Find
  • Information
  • Blessing

• I decided in my late teens that I wanted to be an actor, and my dad and I agreed that films were better. I work alongside my dad, you see. I've thought that films were better since I was a kid.

  

  Tadanobu Asano
  • Work
  • Dad
  • Thought

• A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • Up
  • Never
  • Child

• You get an audience to laugh and then show them something horrific, it's going to be even more horrific because they've had the release of the laugh before it.

  

  Gary Sherman
  • Audience
  • Laugh
  • Release

• I kinda like the idea of having an album that's all me.

  

  J. Cole
  • Me
  • Like
  • Idea

• First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • You
  • Drink
  • New Years

• The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • God
  • Feeling
  • Journey

• Authoritarianism, an unrealistic occidental imagination - these issues will never be settled. Turkey will continue to take Europe as a model; it will continue to pursue its search for democracy.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Imagination
  • Democracy
  • Model

• People are willing to do the most appalling things to another person for the sake of imposing a religious belief.

  

  Karen Maitland
  • People
  • Religious
  • Belief

• I think when you're a TV presenter, you have to have a reason for doing it, and a lot of them have been around a long time and grafted for that. The reason why it works with me on 'The Xtra Factor' is because I was a contestant on it, and I have a relationship with the viewers at home.

  

  Olly Murs
  • Time
  • Long
  • Why

• And sometimes you have to go above the written law, I believe.

  

  Fawn Hall
  • Believe
  • Law
  • I Believe

• I'm sure that my father becoming seriously ill when I was 14 had a lot to do with my going from chubby to fat.

  

  Rafe Spall
  • Father
  • Fat
  • Chubby

• I hope it will be set in California. In a way, I made a mistake, because a New Jersey policeman can't operate that way in New York. But in California, he can move between different counties.

  

  Patricia Highsmith
  • Different
  • Hope
  • Mistake

• The greatest sin for a writer is to be boring.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • Sin
  • Greatest
  • Boring

• The lighthearted moments of 'Girls' are really not speckled throughout and that to me is just super exciting, to be able to delve into the darkness that you are greeted with in your early 20s and the fear and what that makes you do, the places that you can potentially go with that.

  

  Zosia Mamet
  • Fear
  • Me
  • Moments

• Christmas was always a big holiday in our family. Every Christmas Eve before we'd go to bed, my mom and dad would read to us two or three stories and they would always be 'The Happy Prince,' 'The Gift of the Magi' and 'Twas the Night Before Christmas,' and I would like to keep that alive.

  

  Cameron Mathison
  • Family
  • Happy
  • Night

• I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded, not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain gathering its things, packing up, and slipping away unannounced in the middle of the night.

  

  Khaled Hosseini
  • Up
  • Night
  • Pain

• Space is dark but, of course, when we're on the sun side of the Earth, we're in full illumination and we have all the reflection of the Earth below us, beautiful blue Earth and we're in daylight. Only on the back side, opposite side of the sun, it seems like night to us, too.

  

  Kevin A. Ford
  • Beautiful
  • Night
  • Earth

• Okay," I said, "what's your biggest fear?" As always, he took a second to think about the answer. "Clowns," he said. "Clowns." "Yup." I just looked at him. "What?" he said, glancing over at me. "That is not a real answer," I told him. "Says who?" "Says me. I meant a real fear, like of failure, of death, of regret. Like that. Something that keeps you awake nights, questioning your very existence." He thought for a second. "Clowns.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Thinking
  • Real
  • Night

• All human beings are, in fact, born with dozens of mutations their parents lacked, and a few of those mutations could well be lethal if we didn't have two copies of every gene, so one can pick up the slack if the other malfunctions.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Up
  • Parents
  • Human

• Whether you win or not, the night the Oscars are over, the curtain goes down and you go back to the grind. Period.

  

  Marcia Gay Harden
  • Night
  • Period
  • Grind