Martin Millar Quotes

Disorder makes me feel at ease if I'm alone, embarrassed if I'm not.

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• As a songwriter, pop music really is a love and a joy and a science, and I feel like a lot of people look at pop music with a very formulaic perspective in numbers and patterns, but an outsider would think that the process is very natural.

  

  Halsey
  • People
  • Music
  • Love

• I love the song 'Into the Night.' It's Roy Orbison meets David Lynch meets Iggy Pop on amphetamines. It has a punk edge that is not HIM, per se. It is super melodic and super '60s, and that is very new to me and it is a sense of achievement to me.

  

  Ville Valo HIM
  • Love
  • Song
  • Night

• In orthodox film-making, you never shoot sequentially - but with improv, obviously every move you make has a knock-on effect; it is a cumulative process. I have improvised, on the non-scripted 'Timecode.' It can become entirely indulgent: actors smashing crockery and competing verbally.

  

  Saffron Burrows
  • You
  • Never
  • Process

• I never felt a need to manipulate my career from the outside - try to be someone I wasn't to get ahead.

  

  Randy Harrison
  • Career
  • Try
  • Ahead

• When we show up in a city, we ask, 'Where's the best restaurant? What's the best beer?' You start doing that, and you get exposed to a lot of great stuff.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Up
  • Great
  • City

• I regard myself as a beautiful musical instrument, and my role is to contribute that instrument to scripts worthy of it.

  

  Ed Asner
  • Beautiful
  • Myself
  • Role

• Art is that which comes to a man, and stands between himself and an implacable witness: the work.

  

  Eduardo Chillida
  • Work
  • Art
  • Man

• The magic of landing my first role on Broadway went 'poof' in a matter of a few weeks.

  

  Uzo Aduba
  • Magic
  • First
  • Broadway

• Love your neighbor as yourself; but don't take down the fence.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Love
  • Yourself
  • Neighbor

• I hate when a guy brags... or he sweats.

  

  Paris Hilton
  • Guy
  • Hate
  • Sweats

• I still enjoy doing music. I'm not going to stop doing it, and doing it the way that I feel it should be done.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Music
  • Done
  • Stop

• If you don't shop smart, you get a little trendy.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • You
  • Smart
  • Little

• I started off in comedy, but that's just where I got my work. I've always been an actor.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • Work
  • Comedy
  • Always

• I think God just died of old age. And, when I realized that he wasn't any more, it didn't shock me. It seemed natural and right!

  

  Frances Farmer
  • God
  • Age
  • Old Age

• Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

  

  Barbara Sher
  • Change
  • Only
  • Inevitable

• If you think back to your first love, you always remember them and little things always remind you of them.

  

  Naya Rivera
  • Love
  • Remember
  • Think

• When you go somewhere like Kenya and you see how the children don't have pencils and pens, and all of these things are considered luxuries, and what a privilege they see education as and how hungry they are to learn, I wanted to give my brother and sister long lectures. That definitely stayed with me.

  

  Naomie Harris
  • Long
  • Children
  • Education

• Life is short, and it is here to be lived.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Life
  • Short
  • Here

• I think it's really, really important to grow the consensus and to realize that there is always some value that can be shared with another American, on any issue. Starting from those points of common belief and shared values is very, I think, important to forging the consensus that allows these issues to more forward.

  

  Martin O'Malley
  • Important
  • American
  • Value

• I kind of like to look like a hobo.

  

  Kristen Stewart
  • Kind
  • Looks
  • Hobos

• Just let me do what I'm doing, and then when all of this is up, then you can say how my career was. Don't try to sum up my career in one or two seasons. Let me finish it first.

  

  Bo Jackson
  • Up
  • Career
  • Firsts

• Don't sacrifice alone time with your spouse just because the kids seem needy. A united front requires adult time alone, so put it in the calendar and make it a priority. A house cannot stand on a shaky foundation.

  

  Emily V. Gordon
  • Time
  • Kids
  • House

• I've always been shocked and waiting-for-the-other-shoe-to-drop that a girl would ever talk to me, let alone want to marry me. They always seem to hold the power to me, and from my mother to my wife to my daughter, every time I try to really figure them out, and think I've got them pegged, I pay for it.

  

  Andrew Stanton
  • Time
  • Power
  • Mother

• Disorder makes me feel at ease if I'm alone, embarrassed if I'm not.

  

  Martin Millar
  • Alone