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Part of the mystery of any given photograph is the fact that it was taken at a certain time and in a certain place and time keeps moving on. A photograph might be a moment in time preserved, but the world continues to change around it.
Errol Morris
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Errol Morris
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: February 5
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Errol Mark Morris
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I've been involved in doing advertising for various elections and I just couldn't see doing anti-Trump advertising in this election. My line has been, How could you do anything worse that what he does himself?.
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The pursuit of truth, properly considered, shouldn't stop short of insanity.
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Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it without a sense of ironic futility.
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I like to think that one of things I've done with non-fiction since the very beginning is to find new ways of telling true stories.
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I used to say that interviewing others was perhaps the way I could stop talking and start listening. It's a kind of enforced silence.
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