Christopher Miller Quotes
You need to come up with a reason to make a movie, separate from the commercial side.
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A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.
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I have 179 children that I take care of full-time: close to 40 in Uganda and the rest in Sudan.
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I think success is very hard work, so, you know, if you work hard and you have some success, you have to give up something.
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Most big popcorn movies are 'bad guy does something to good guy, good guy gets revenge on bad guy, sets the world right, and moves on.' And 'Ender's Game' is just not that simple, so it's an exciting challenge. It's a little terrifying, and let's see how audiences respond.
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Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in course of ultimate extinction, or its advocates will push it forward, till it shall become alike lawful in all the States - old as well as new - North as well as South.
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I do not live in the world of sobriety.
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I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.
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Americans have always had an ambivalent attitude toward intelligence. When they feel threatened, they want a lot of it, and when they don't, they regard the whole thing as somewhat immoral.
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I miss driving to Goodison Park. I miss just the positive energy of the fans walking into the stadium and how much they care about that club and the team. And I miss the players a lot.
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There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.
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I won't be happy until we have every boy in America between the ages of six and sixteen wearing a glove and swinging a bat.
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If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.
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Emancipation came to the colored race in America as a war measure. It was an act of military necessity. Manifestly it would have come without war, in the slower process of humanitarian reform and social enlightenment.
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A lot of times people hide their quirks when they're first getting to know a person.
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Any commodity that sees its price going higher will see new mines opening up. When the supply increases, the prices soften. When prices fall, some mines with higher production costs will shut down as they become unviable.
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Sometimes I thank God... for cheeseburgers.
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All my music is inspirational. You just gotta listen to the words and get what you can get out of it.
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I didn't grow up in a wealthy family at all. Being at home all day and watching movies, that was a luxury.
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I don't think there's anything wrong with the word 'curvy' or 'plus-size' because there are women who identify as that, and I'm not offended by it whatsoever because I don't feel like being bigger is anything wrong.
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I certainly know that I owe it the Copernican theory this duty, that as I have attested it as true in my deepest soul, and as I contemplate its beauty with incredible and ravishing delight, I should also publicly defend it to my readers with all the force at my command.
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It's in this book I was reading. Apparently, there's a little red demon dwarf that haunts the city, and before every major bad thing that's happened, it's appeared to somebody. Last time, he appeared in a Cadillac.
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I'm from a very politically and socially conscious family. My mother always made a point of making us look at what was going on around us and take stock of our part in it.
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Any good relationship that I've had with an actor has always been so emotional and personal. If you don't have that then you're just lying.
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You need to come up with a reason to make a movie, separate from the commercial side.
