Keith Miller Quotes
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Almost all our suffering is the product of our thoughts. We spend nearly every moment of our lives lost in thought, and hostage to the character of those thoughts. You can break this spell, but it takes training just like it takes training to defend yourself against a physical assault.
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During the fall and winter we built Fort Meade and the town of Sturgis.
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The Supreme Court's only armor is the cloak of public trust; its sole ammunition, the collective hopes of our society.
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The first movie my dad ever showed me was 'Predator' – I was five. And I think the second one was 'Jaws.'
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I have yet to see a drama that puts forward women who are successful and also have a family... they are nearly always seen as victims.
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I get really insecure because even though I can speak in musician's terms, I don't know as much as real musicians.
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If you know you are giving your best effort, you'll never have any reason for regrets.
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I recognize myself to be an intensely naive person. Most novelists are, despite frequent pretensions to deep socio-political insight.
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The thing about being an actor is that every new job is a new challenge. Sometimes you'll have a shot, and it doesn't work. Sometimes it'll work better than you expected.
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I'm the kind of person that if I try to throw it hard, it doesn't come out as good. So my whole thought process is to stay smooth, stay on top of the ball, and just get my hand out in front.
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We were like a stock company at Warners. We didn't know any of the stars from the other studios.
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I sold a bunch of stuff. I sold Omaha Steaks, vacation packages... the worst, though, was Time Life Books, because no one wants Time Life Books. No one wants an 'Encyclopedia Brittanica' showing up at their house.
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All we had aboard the ship that morning was one Annapolis graduate and three reserves.
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Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.
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You can think of Hollywood as high school. TV actors are freshmen, comedy actors are maybe juniors, and dramatic actors - they're the cool seniors.
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All of the very important events in my life happen by chance.
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Even if I flop, I still qualified for the Games, and that was my goal. My target was to be at an Olympics for the third time with people I like.
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I start with an idea that is no more than a paragraph long, and expand it slowly into an outline. But I'm always surprised by the directions things take when I actually start writing.
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I came into office to do what was correct, not to see what was politically expedient to get re-elected.
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One has no friend who has many friends.
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The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt.
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No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish.
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When I grew up, what was interesting for me was that music was color and life was gray. So music for me has always been more than entertainment.
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Feelings are like a color chart that God has given us.
