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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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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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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Investing in Chicago property is just Wanda's first move into the U.S. real estate market.
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The Toast's audience is about 30-35 percent male, which shocked me because I would say that we actively try to discourage men from reading our site. Apparently, there's not insignificant number of dudes out there who think that what we are doing is okay.
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When he laughed, respectable senators burst with laughter, And when he cried the little children died in the streets.
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My art is rooted in a single reflection: why am I not as others are? ..my art gives meaning to my life.
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Paris is one of the fashion capitals of the world and such an incredible breeding ground for designers. You can't help but find it an inspiring place.
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'You must save yourselves,' Rogol Domedonfors told them. 'You have ignored the ancient wisdom, you have been too indolent to learn, you have sought easy complacence from religion, rather than facing manfully to the world.'
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A graphic designer, you know, who understands ideas and understands that ideas are what makes the world go round, could change the world with a magazine. If one talent could do it right now, and everybody would stop saying it's the death of magazines.
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The first time I rode a bike I was four or five. I crashed into the back of a car.
