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 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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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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I got to be good friends with Scott Hamilton.
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My parents would always tell you that I was the crazy princess growing up. I was a drama queen.
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Compassion is a practically acquired knowledge, like dancing. You must do it and practice diligently day by day.
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At night I wake up and think, What color will make me feel better when I soak in the bathtub for an hour? I want everyone who's dreaming of a glamorous life to know that I'd trade a good bath any day for the heels, the hair, the makeup, the tight dresses, the photographs, the small talk.
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Step through new doors. The majority of the time there's something fantastic on the other side.
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If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.
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To retrieve the past is no great effort, when the events to be recalled are so firmly imprinted on the mind. It is existence in the present, the bleak wreckage and residue of what has gone before, that is so burdensome.
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It wasn't necessary to win for the story to be great, it was only necessary to sacrifice everything.
