Marcia Gay Harden Quotes
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What is more important? What the members of a politicised tribunal say, or what the citizens vote for? For me, it is clear.
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Listen to the Bee Gees and you can learn to be a great writer.
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Nowadays, there are seven music directors in one film. I had never heard of such a thing before. If one of our old music directors was told to share a score with others, he would have left the assignment.
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Pity is the deadliest feeling that can be offered to a woman.
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The goal in life is to be solid, whereas the way that life works is totally fluid, so you can never actually achieve that goal.
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It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.
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We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.
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All my friends are like, 'Can you be on my side in the zombie apocalypse?' and I'm like, 'I got this.'
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But eventually it is a game of cricket.
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When we look around the world today, when we see in Afghanistan that 10 million people have registered to vote in their upcoming elections, including 40 percent of those people are women, that's just unbelievable.
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I feel the audience are friends that have come to see us. That was always how we look on it in the Carter Family. I've never suffered stage fright.
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If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.
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The nearest approach I have ever seen to the symmetry of ancient sculpture was among the Arab tribes of Ethiopia. Our Saxon race can supply the athlete, but not the Apollo.
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After the Soviet Union collapsed, people thought I wasn't funny anymore.
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Mama is my chance to be a stand-up comedian. In my mind, it's my chance to be Chris Rock.
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It's more important to try to do something for the crores of poor people of my country.
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Education should be totally secular. I am not telling people not to believe in God, but it should be a personal matter which should be done at home.
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Neighbors are frightening enough when they're alive.
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I've never sat down and thought about the difference between plot and theme. To me, that's never been important.
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I wrote the first version of this book in 1996, in the closing years of the twentieth century. Now, almost two decades into the twenty-first, it seems we are still struggling with what W. E. B. Du Bois identified in 1906 as the “problem of the color line,” even though the demographic composition of that color line has changed quite a bit since then.
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The glory that goes with wealth is fleeting and fragile; virtue is a possession glorious and eternal.
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Alleged 'impossibilities' are opportunities for our capacities to be stretched.
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I think irrationality is one of the scariest things in the world.
