Marcia Gay Harden Quotes
A New York casting director, who shall remain nameless, once said to me, 'Marcia, you have what I call the flaring-nostril look, and until you get something done about it, you will never, ever work.'
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NATO remains the cornerstone of Atlantic security.
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I have to be on such a strict diet constantly.
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Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.
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A big reason why I'm not a big TV watcher is that in my formative years as a viewer, there wasn't that much great television on, or at least, television that appealed to me.
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Histories are to educate so that we understand better for ourselves and for motivation.
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My father was a civil servant in northern India where I was born. As a boy I saw the dire effects of poverty and illiteracy, especially on women and children. It often seemed that the only thing separating me from them was luck.
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It's nature-nurture, right? I've been nurtured by Californians.
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I never left doo wop.
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I'm not denying that it's exciting to have a play on Broadway.
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The simpler I keep things, the better I play.
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Trials by the adversarial contest must in time go the way of the ancient trial by battle and blood.
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We've all heard of the surveys revealing that teenagers think cows lay eggs, and others where children can identify more brand logos than trees, by a staggering margin. My view is that children will form a significant part of the green fightback. They instinctively understand the value of the environment.
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I was doing things that weren't good for me. So I checked into the Churchill Priory clinic. It was the best thing I've done for ages.
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I have no privacy anymore.
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There were so many pretty girls coming into the salon as clients, and others working in the salon. And I thought, 'Hmm. This is rather nice.'
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Only the other world has substance and reality; only good deeds and holy learning have tangible worth.
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No day is similar to another, but usually mail is part of my start of the day. Our company never sleeps: we have business in 180 countries, so there are no real mornings or nights.
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I find it slightly absurd that the only thing we consume more of than water is concrete.
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The light dove, cleaving the air in her free flight, and feeling its resistance, might imagine that its flight would be still easier in empty space.
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I feel a buzzing at the base of my neck. It's like I'm on eternal 'vibrate' in case of an emergency.
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See, when I paint, it is an experience that, at its best, is transcending reality.
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I grew up on a farm in Lexington, Oklahoma, a rural community south of Norman. My family moved to Enid, Oklahoma, in 1962, when I was a junior in high school. This cast me into a totally different environment. Enid was a company town for Champlin Petroleum, and there was an oil boom going on.
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What is required of us is that we love the difficult and learn to deal with it. In the difficult are the friendly forces, the hands that work on us. Right in the difficult we must have our joys, our happiness, our dreams: there against the depth of this background, they stand out, there for the first time we see how beautiful they are.
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A New York casting director, who shall remain nameless, once said to me, 'Marcia, you have what I call the flaring-nostril look, and until you get something done about it, you will never, ever work.'
