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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The cool thing about reading is that when you read a short story or you read something that takes your mind and expands where your thoughts can go, that's powerful.
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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 never fuck with Facebook. I absolutely despise social networking. I think it's truly going to result in the destruction of mankind. Sometimes I just wish I didn't live in this time. Before, there was so much more freedom and privacy, and you could truly escape places.
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If something is said about the Raiders, I'm ready to go to war.
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Willem de Kooning is generally credited for coming out of the painterly gates strong in the forties, revolutionizing art and abstraction and reaching incredible heights by the early fifties, and then tailing off.
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I'm not a big fan of mediocre.
