Christopher Miller Quotes
All of everything we've ever done has been riding on low expectations. 'Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs,' a terrible idea. Doing '21 Jump Street' as a movie is a terrible idea. 'The Lego Movie' sounds like a terrible idea.
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You get tough when you grow up unloved. People described me as a boyish girl - rather shy, but I didn't show it. I had an attitude. I was rather wild. I lied a lot because I knew the alternative was to be punished. As I got older I realised I didn't have to lie any more and it was a nice feeling. I could be myself.
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I love adventure sports. And, I love cooking.
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Well, I have a couple of projects in the pipeline, but I'm taking things slow for now and being choosy about the roles I take up. One thing I can assure you of is that you are going to see a lot of me!
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Every change in a team can turn into an opportunity for players to show themselves.
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If you get 10,000 guys to put their ideal woman into a computer, it still comes out looking like Angelina Jolie.
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I'm not going to be able to play it like somebody else.
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Normally, the same strange impulse which brings a crowd to an accident is present in the reaction to a concert in which something goes wrong.
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Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.
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The roundness of life's design may be a sign that there is a presence beyond ourselves.
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I'm a Sikh; it's part of my religious tradition to never cut my hair and keep it wrapped in a turban.
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The world is a very abnormal place.
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I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.
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Startups on the inside are always badly broken.
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I did not enter the industry to create a certain image. People happened to see me as the friend/sister/daughter next door. I like that association very much. It's close to what I am in real life. As for films, I just focus on the job.
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At one point, I had 14 pairs of golf shoes.
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All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.
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I should have liked to get married, but over many decades I have lived essentially alone. I go to sleep when I'm tired, get up when I wake up, have my food prepared when I'm hungry. I can't bear the thought that I'd have to coincide, make an effort.
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I don't want people to get confused. I'm not going to be putting out a gospel album.
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I think I'm a born athlete. My coaches have told me my muscles and body structure are perfect for skating.
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As soon as we are born, if we could but get up, bath, dress, shave, breakfast once for all, if we could 'cut' these monotonous cycles of routine. If the sun rose it would stay up, or once we were alive we were immortal!
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We've tried to make a Superman movie where he does stuff and you go, 'Yeah, if I was Superman, that's what I'd do.' Even though he's an alien, he's more relatable, more human.
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I have to say, I worry about Twitter. Not that it will survive - they don't need my blessing for that - but that it will stay the kind of open, community-enhancing-and-enabling site that made it flourish at the outset.
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Anybody can decide a question if only a single principle is in controversy.
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All of everything we've ever done has been riding on low expectations. 'Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs,' a terrible idea. Doing '21 Jump Street' as a movie is a terrible idea. 'The Lego Movie' sounds like a terrible idea.
