Donald Miller Quotes
It wasn't necessary to win for the story to be great, it was only necessary to sacrifice everything.
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Luck marches with those who give their very best.
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I always tell people I went to the Harvard School of Comedy in front of America.
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I don't look at myself as suffering.
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It's always about trying to make everything go with the music, like a script. It's not like, 'Let's have a confetti gun!' If I ever have one of those, it will be because it's absolutely the right thing at the moment in the song. I can't just go get a confetti gun.
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One of the things I like best about the Halloween show is that I change outfits about six times in the show. It is a lot of fun to play the different characters.
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I don't work out and be healthy and want a strong body because I want to look good in a bikini. I do all of those things for me and for my health. I'm not going on the cover of 'Maxim' and 'FHM' because that's not me.
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I didn't work for Jimmy Carter all those years to go to cocktail parties. I was there as a political adviser, a short-order cook, to work on topical matters.
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After working so hard on the court, I find that snacks help me avoid late-afternoon energy lows.
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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We must keep both our femininity and our strength.
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I have always thought that writers come with any variety of attributes. Some are capable and some aren't.
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One of the saddest things about publishing is how quickly it ages what it touches. The frenzy involved in getting books on shelves, and in putting the word out that they're there, moves at a speed that is not the speed of writing, let alone of reading.
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My mother giving birth to me was just like Lady Sybil giving birth, except that there wasn't such a tragic ending.
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Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.
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I kinda went through a semi-depression. Honestly. Like, I lost myself.
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I asked my mother could I have an instrument. She said, 'Well if you go out and save your money.' So I went and got - I made me a shine box. I went out and started shining shoes, and I'd bring whatever I made.
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I already am a product.
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No one ever chats me up; I think they all think I'm taken. Either that or no one fancies me.
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When you get to a certain age, it's kind of the same thing. There's no new school to go to, no new teachers. There's some comfort in that.
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If we are not stupid or insincere when we say that the good or ill of man lies within his own will, and that all beside is nothing to us, why are we still troubled?
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If you think of play as being in things, there are things that are playable, then it becomes the work of figuring out what a thing can do.
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Heart's-ease is a flower which blooms from the grave of desire.
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I love my last-minute lifestyle because I just sort of don't have plans, and things kind of happen. Plans make me annoyed a little bit, personally. I'm not the most prompt, on-time person.
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It wasn't necessary to win for the story to be great, it was only necessary to sacrifice everything.
