Donald Miller Quotes
Job found contentment and even joy, outside the context of comfort, health or stability. He understood the story was not about him, and he cared more about the story then he did about himself.
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To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.
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Really, I have to laugh because there was a whole set of stories that made me sound like the Dragon Lady, you know, 'tough this and tough that.' Then there is this business about 'gooey.' The bottom line is I am a pragmatic idealist.
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The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath.
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The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.
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I love lamb shank. It's my favorite thing. You don't have it in America. It's a younger meat - it just falls off the bone - it's kind of like a roast. I really like blackened cod too.
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Chess helps you to concentrate, improve your logic. It teaches you to play by the rules and take responsibility for your actions, how to problem solve in an uncertain environment.
Garry Kasparov
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Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.
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I've been in the room or watched artists walk in who don't write, and you can't figure out what they really want.
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If you believe that your thoughts originate inside your brain, do you also believe that television shows are made inside your television set?
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Project Xanadu is essentially my trademark. It was originally, and has returned to my arms as that.
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I think 'The Wire' really is relatable. It reflects an ongoing issue across America, about inaccuracies in major cities between rich and the poor and some of the things that go on behind the red tape of council and government bodies.
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I get to meet different directors and different people.
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Once I'm in a situation where I can not do anything for three years and go off the map, I'll focus more on writing. Right now, I want to just make Flume awesome... and big.
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Being an economist is the least ethical profession, closer to charlatanism than any science.
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The more love I craved, the more distant and abusive he grew. The role I longed to play was never written into Ryan's script: daughter.
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That heart alone is hard which does not shudder at itself for not feeling its hardness.
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I have been constantly betrayed and deceived all my life.
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Wearing a baseball cap or sleeveless shirt in a white-tablecloth restaurant is rude and makes other diners upset, just like someone on a cellphone.
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My job is to do. My job is to make women beautiful. What do I have to say?
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I've always written about adultery because it raises the question of transgression and trouble.
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I had a job writing in a weekly newspaper but after a while that got boring because I realized the people I was interviewing were far less interesting than me and I didn't see why I should be talking to them.
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This avidity alone, of acquiring goods and possessions for ourselves and our nearest friends, is insatiable, perpetual, universal, and directly destructive of society.
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Job found contentment and even joy, outside the context of comfort, health or stability. He understood the story was not about him, and he cared more about the story then he did about himself.
