Larry Miller Quotes
I didn't say that. I don't know who told him that. So he was nervous about that and I understand that if that's what he thought. So we spent 10 or 15 minutes just talking about stuff and reiterating the commitment we've always had.
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Dad said that he was prouder of me than he'd ever been when I came out.
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I am a genre lover - everything from spaghetti western to samurai movie.
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Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.
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Islam means peace.
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The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts.
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Everybody's an artist. Everybody's God. It's just that they're inhibited.
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Power is the by-product of understanding.
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What surprised me about the Oscars was how familiar it was - because you're in the room with all these people that have inspired you from your childhood to adulthood in the film industry. It feels like you've known them all of your life.
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We have the world to live in on the condition that we will take good care of it. And to take good care of it, we have to know it. And to know it and to be willing to take care of it, we have to love it.
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I just wear black and gray all the time. If you Google Image me, you'll just see a bunch of black and gray. It's simple. If I like a shirt, I'll buy six or eight of them, wear them back-to-back, and just wait for somebody to say something. 'That's the same shirt you wore yesterday.' 'Yeah, but this one is fresh.'
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It's easy to get distracted by the vaudevillian aspects of the healthcare debate.
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I write synopses after the book is completed. I can't write it beforehand, because I don't know what the book's about. I invent something for my publisher because he asks for one, but the final book ends up very differently.
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A dead end street is a good place to turn around.
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Every time I write a new novel about something sombre and sobering and terrible I think, 'oh Lord, they're not going to want to go here'. But they do. Readers of fiction read, I think, for a deeper embrace of the world, of reality. And that's brave.
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The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.
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The stigma that was once attached to things society deemed unhealthy served the purpose of making them undesirable. With the stigma gone, many people see little reason not to do whatever feels good at the moment.
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I'd like to do more family dramas.
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Many have said of Alchemy, that it is for the making of gold and silver. For me such is not the aim, but to consider only what virtue and power may lie in medicines.
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Immigrants use debt intelligently. They understand the difference between active debt: creating a business, or something to make business better, and dead debt: buying that new sports car or the 60 inch television. Those things don't lead to the good life. They delay getting it.
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If I know somebody is coming 'round, it is incredibly difficult for me to work because I'm waiting for this interruption - even the children's comings and goings are interruptions. Cake-making is a good way of coming out of that space.
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I know that our bodies were made to thrive only in pure air, and the scenes in which pure air is found.
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Some of the greatest businesses operating from a deeper purpose have a real commitment to service, like Four Seasons, Joie de Vivre hotels, Southwest Airlines, and JetBlue.
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I have a great office.
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I didn't say that. I don't know who told him that. So he was nervous about that and I understand that if that's what he thought. So we spent 10 or 15 minutes just talking about stuff and reiterating the commitment we've always had.
