Donald Miller Quotes
We don't think much about how our love stories will affect the world, but they do. Children learn what's worth living for and what's worth dying for by the stories they watch us live. I want to teach our children how to get scary close, and more, how to be brave. I want to teach them that love is worth what it costs.
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Every quirky girl doesn't have to be the best-friend character. It's a very limiting and self-fulfilling prophecy. People only write things that will get green-lit, so they write to those stereotypes.
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I tried to play rugby but was never very good.
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A good stand-up, you lead the audience. You don't kowtow to the audience. Sometimes the audience is wrong. I always think the audience is wrong.
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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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I'm here today because I hated everything else.
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I knew that for this movie to work it had to be very hot and very real, and it wasn't going to be a case of doing it Hollywood all covered with a nice little sheet.
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No, but it's not because I'm getting older that I'm trying to accelerate. But something very curious is happening: The older I get, the more ideas I'm getting.
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You have to work hard for what you want to achieve and you have to set goals and dreams and really go for them.
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When I get into the studio, I write from my heart.
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I know who I am as an artist and I know what my sound is, but I wanted to know what I could do in order to take it to that next level. So the experiences I had last year of moving to California and traveling to places like Rome and Nicaragua where I met a lot of people just had a really big impact in my life.
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Every game has to teach you how to walk, run, talk, use.
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I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it.
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I am a self-critical perfectionist.
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I'll come and make love to you at five o'clock. If I'm late start without me.
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Children seem naturally drawn to poetry - it's some combination of the rhyme, rhythm, and the words themselves.
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That's pretty much who I am. I like to get riled up. I feel like it brings the best out of me and the other guys.
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Women who give up their children for adoption are years and years later talking about how painful it was, much more than women who have abortions.
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Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
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Novels taught me that history is dramatic. I wanted my students to know that, too.
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The moment to tell my barber I was gay just never came up.
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Do the math. Expect catastrophes. Whatever happens, stay the course.
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If you feel comfortable in what you're wearing, you'll look your best, and I think that's a really important idea. Sometimes, whether it's fashion or beauty, things are on-trend, and they look beautiful on the runway, but when I apply them to myself, it doesn't look the way it should.
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Obviously, I haven't really progressed that much at my craft.
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We don't think much about how our love stories will affect the world, but they do. Children learn what's worth living for and what's worth dying for by the stories they watch us live. I want to teach our children how to get scary close, and more, how to be brave. I want to teach them that love is worth what it costs.
