David Millar Quotes
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There are recurring elements in popularized fairy tales, such as absent parents, some sort of struggle, a transformation, and a marriage. If you look at a range of stories, you find many stories about marriage, sexual initiation, abandonment. The plots often revolve around what to me seem to be elemental fears and desires.
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Human beings love stories because they safely show us beginnings, middles and ends.
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Change is no threat to culture.
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I personally don't like to rehearse so much. I really sort of trust my instinct.
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In the future, I'd like to see paleontology as a whole get a lot more quantitative.
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Every different director has another language - for instance, Hitchcock does not like any bright color ever, unless the story says 'there goes the girl in a red dress.'
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If people don't find what you are doing threatening, then it is probably not very important.
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As a writer, one is obliged to release her words, to let them live in the world on their own.
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My children are magical creatures and I love them to death.
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Our goal definitely isn't to sell Stripe.
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Sports and entertainment are the only places where inner-city kids see themselves being able to succeed. Their intellectual development is something they don't relate to.
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Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
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I've always had a passion for music, but I never saw me as a musician for a living. I never thought that I could make a living. It never dawned on me.
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I think it's really important that people become aware of the amount, the mass of animals that are sitting in shelters as opposed to people going out and just buying puppies that are being bred.
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Power in politics, sovereignty in America is with we the people, and that is the path to turning this country around: empowering the people.
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So being two different people in one day unnerved me to no end.
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I'm extremely well recognized in Korea just because of what I do on the ice, and there is a lack of that in Canada because hockey is our sport and it will be for eternity.
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In its conception the literature prize belongs to days when a writer could still be thought of as, by virtue of his or her occupation, a sage, someone with no institutional affiliations who could offer an authoritative word on our times as well as on our moral life.
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Valuation depends on several factors. From an investor angle, they look at leadership position, management, and what the company's offerings are. I think these three things got 5/5 for a company like Flipkart, and that is what is driving valuations and growth.
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If one adds anything small or great to the queen of virtues, piety, or on the other hand takes something from it, in either case he will change and transform its nature. Addition will beget superstition and subtraction will beget impiety.
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Before I did 'Rush Hour,' I was a big fan of Jackie Chan movies and I had seen all of them.
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Men become old, but they never become good.
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The first time I rode a bike I was four or five. I crashed into the back of a car.
