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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You get so tired of having your work die. I just wanted to make something that people would actually use.
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I mark a script like an exam, and I try not to do anything under 50 per cent. Similarly with the part. And also film is a peculiar thing, parts don't necessarily read in script form anything like as well as they can do when it comes to materialising.
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People love to talk about how the '70s are the only time they made movies about characters, and adult movies, and complicated people. But in the '80s, they got away with some of those too.
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I'm technologically challenged, so I finally hooked up Bluetooth in my truck so I can talk going down the road.
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I'm not a big fan of mediocre.
