Marcia Gay Harden Quotes
In the theater, it's about taking time in a musical segment, a pause in a musical way and then moving on.
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Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.
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The media's gotten lazy. They don't check anything out. You report what he reports.
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Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.
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Hopefully, film inspires you to think about human nature. It make us consider how we treat strangers and our most intimate.
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For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norms, even our cultural ideal.
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If a work of art is rich and vital and complete, those who have artistic instincts will see its beauty, and those to whom ethics appeal more strongly than aesthetics will see its moral lesson. It will fill the cowardly with terror, and the unclean will see in it their own shame.
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I think that characters who are nice all the time and who you sympathize with can get really boring.
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I'm thought to be a tough writer, but I'm really a softie.
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Rather than waiting to restore fiscal responsibility after we pass legislation, we must work to ensure we remain committed to it as we draft legislation.
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Writers are so important.
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I didn't want to do a zoo show. I didn't want to do a study of someone with mental illness. I just wanted to show someone who was trying to live their life.
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I always had the dream of flying, and the cheapest way is to become a skydiver.
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The lamp burns bright when wick and oil are clean.
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It just seems to be a human trait to want to protect the speech of people with whom we agree. For the First Amendment, that is not good enough. So it is really important that we protect First Amendment rights of people no matter what side of the line they are on.
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Deep, unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state.
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I have to prove everything. Especially when you're coming from an off year after the injuries, and you come back, and you have to prove a lot of things to the fans, to the team, to your teammates, to the sport. You have to prove a lot of things out there on the field.
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Minds that are ill at ease are agitated by both hope and fear.
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I've been racketeered on.
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I don't believe there's a baseball job that I couldn't take care of.
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All the lessons of history in four sentences: Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power. The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly small. The bee fertilizes the flower it robs. When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
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One seed becomesAn everlasting song, a singing tree,Caroling softly souls of slavery,What they were, and what they are to me,Caroling softly souls of slavery.
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Any action is often better than no action, especially if you have been stuck in an unhappy situation for a long time. If it is a mistake, at least you learn something, in which case it's no longer a mistake. If you remain stuck, you learn nothing.
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In the theater, it's about taking time in a musical segment, a pause in a musical way and then moving on.
