Marcia Gay Harden Quotes
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I'm not against the NSA. I'm not against spying; I'm not against looking at phone records.
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Israel is a piece of real estate that neither Jew or Arab will let go of; neither will leave these shores. And so they will have to learn to live together.
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Good God, do you mean to say this place is a club?
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I don't want to look back and say, 'Yeah, I was really successful, but I failed at fatherhood because I wasn't there.'
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When our time's up, it's up. All the money in the world won't buy you one more day.
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My mother is my hero.
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I'm used to being in front of camera and knowing what to think. But if you're asking me to be me, I get very self-conscious. My job isn't to be me. Being an actor, people think you can do a eulogy at a funeral, a speech at a wedding. I find all that very nerve-racking.
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I feel exhausted if I teach too long.
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A lot of broadcasting, I think, is doing a tremendous amount of preparation and trying to act like, 'Oh, this thought is just occurring to me right now' - and speaking sincerely.
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I didn't so much choose the film as director Claire Denis chose me.
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Anytime someone tells me that I can't do something, I want to do it more.
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I don't expect anything from anybody. When you grow old... Your days are gone; it is part of life.
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France has more need of me than I have need of France.
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A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.
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I hate downtime.
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I've made a lot of mistakes. I've bonded with some people who use you, and some people that take advantage of you.
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I always design a landscape with fixed horizons whether it be mountains or a stone wall around a 20-foot-square plot.
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Women have face-lifts in a society in which women without them appear to vanish from sight.
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I really believe at the end of the day, regardless of how noble you are or how patriotic the film might be, it has to serve as entertainment in order for your audiences to come into the theatre and watch it. Otherwise, audiences will wait and see it a few months later when it is premiered on television.
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Try to improve. Don't expect too much, but don't feel discouraged either; keep up your enthusiasm; you will make progress.
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In India, it's hard not to have Gandhi as a hero. To give up everything - including power and money - and to live for his countrymen, that beats everything else. He's a role model of selflessness.
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If somebody pisses me off and I understand it ain't personal then I'll go to another place and I'll meditate.
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I'm not a big fan of mediocre.
