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 love fresh citrus and always keep lemons, limes, and oranges on hand; they come in handy for spritzing up quickly grilled meats, seafoods, and vegetables, especially when followed up by a quick drizzle of extra virgin olive oil.
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Experience teaches only the teachable…
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In Los Angeles there's, like, this awful image because the girls are so skinny. I don't think it's attractive whatsoever, and I also think that it gives a bad image to kids that are in their early teens. It's not healthy.
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You can give your own intuitive qualities a way to surface by following your heart.
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That's why I'm such a big sports fan, with sports you can never guess what's gonna happen. Most movies you get halfway through and you can kind of guess the ending.
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I'm not a big fan of mediocre.
