Marcia Gay Harden Quotes
I examine other people's characteristics, so when I'm playing characters, I don't always have to make them me; I can transform into others.
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Don't let nobody tell you that you can't do it. Love what you do until you don't love it anymore. Nothing's impossible.
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I come from an immigrant family, but I know no other nationality apart from British.
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I am obsessed with the Great Depression and with former showgirls - and the Victorians - the idea of wistful, dark romance.
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More is required of public officials than slogans and handshakes and press releases. More is required. We must hold ourselves strictly accountable. We must provide the people with a vision of the future.
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We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.
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I certainly keep my eye on Washington all the time because often life is stranger than fiction.
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I think that the training of architects allows you to see what will happen ten years ahead of time, or twenty. It's not guessing, it's not intuitive, it's based on research - and we may be wrong.
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I'm such a fan of Shailene Woodley, so I'm super excited to see all her stuff. She's an awesome actress.
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Drama school introduced me to a world I had no idea about. I wasn't brought up in a literary household at all.
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Leaders know the importance of having someone in their lives who will unfailingly and fearlessly tell them the truth.
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I like my house to be unique to me. Sure, I've bought plenty of things out of a catalog, but the way I put them together in my home is special. You might have bought your sofa at a major home decorating store, but the rug you found at the flea market is so unique, it takes your room from 'carbon copy' to 'simply yours' in no time.
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I think it just came to a point where I made a decision to do better with my life and health. And that is only by God's grace because there are no guarantees.
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Whether it comes from a despotic sovereign or an elected president, from a murderous general or a beloved leader, I see power as an inhuman and hateful phenomenon.
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There's an energy in an urban core that you just don't get anywhere else.
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'Freaky Ali' may look like an easy role to others, but it is not easy.
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My first-ever car, my parents bought me a red Fiat Uno. I was 17 and just so happy to have a car, so I was very fortunate that my parents were in a position to get me one - it was a secondhand car, but I was just so happy to have it.
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I get most of my inspiration from older records. Most of the records that I listen to were probably made before I was born, and I was born in the mid-'70s. I don't know why, exactly, I'm drawn to those sounds.
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Watching game film motivates me a lot. It shows me what I need to work on and determines the specific workouts I do.
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Since only an individual man can possess rights, the expression 'individual rights' is a redundancy (which one has to use for purposes of clarification in today’s intellectual chaos). But the expression 'collective rights' is a contradiction in terms.
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I felt better being in the background. That's the way I like it.
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There's nowhere in New York to go and have your emotions to yourself. People just look the other way because every day people see someone crying on the subway!
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The people who are pushing Jewish supremacism, Zionism – they are absolute evil and they are crazy. All they know is more power, and so there is a real danger, I should say, for Syria , and a danger for Iran at this point.
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I think people who just know me from my band think I don't like pop music. The truth is I love pop music.
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I examine other people's characteristics, so when I'm playing characters, I don't always have to make them me; I can transform into others.
