Mark Crispin Miller Quotes
All those people whose faces decorate the shopping bags of Barnes and Noble, with a few exceptions, would never get published today.
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Tell me what you'd like to hear me sing. I'll sing whatever you like, after which I'll take up a collection, if you don't mind.
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During this time I had the singular good fortune of being able to discuss the problem constantly with Einstein. Some experiments done at Einstein's suggestion yielded no decisively new result.
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I smoke, isn't that terrible?
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The running joke about the Premio Cervantes, the most coveted literary prize in the Spanish-speaking world, which was established by Spain's Ministry of Culture in 1976, is that Cervantes himself wouldn't have received it. This is because he was, in his heart, the most anti-Spanish of Spanish writers.
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There's nothing scarier than unlimited choices.
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The interaction of the variation in our genes is what's responsible for lots of our attributes and vigor.
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I love learning new things that will never be put to practical use.
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The classic, 'Romeo and Juliet,' for me, is the iconic story of young love.
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Forethought we may have, undoubtedly, but not foresight.
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I have a company called Earl Campbell Foods. I got into the meat business in 1991.
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The majority of the time, they take air out of the football. I think that, for me, is a disadvantage.
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I played didgeridoo from a young age - on the vacuum cleaner, initially.
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Back in those days intimidation was the greatest tool the drill instructor had. Without that tool, he would not have had control.
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I placed my new novel, 'The Book of Lost Fragrances', in Paris, knowing it would be a challenge. But the book belonged in the city that is one of the greatest perfume capitals of the world and has been since for more than three centuries.
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When I was a kid, there was so much talent outside of recorded music.
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When I was 11, I decided to start rapping, playing guitar, and writing songs. Everything really blossomed from there.
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I'm a sponge when it comes to stories. I'd say everything influences me in some way, but for 'Red Queen' in particular, I was really affected by the 'A Song of Ice and Fire' series by George R. R. Martin.
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When I first came to do shows in Vegas, I followed the usual entertainer's syndrome - I played craps and lost.
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We are here because we are determined to offer the people of the Western Cape choices which are long overdue.
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I was very camera shy. People like hot girls, so I put my music to hot girls and it just became a trend. The whole 'enigmatic artist' thing, I just ran with it. No one could find pictures of me.
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I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics.
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That was like my safe place with great teachers where everyone could let down their guard and not feel judged. As soon as we walk outside, it was like, 'Look at these weird drama club kids.' But we all had our own agreement that we were cool in our own way.
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A painter is always overjoyed when anybody pays any attention to him at all, puts him in any category, calls him anything - as long as they call him something.
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All those people whose faces decorate the shopping bags of Barnes and Noble, with a few exceptions, would never get published today.
