Donald Miller Quotes
When you fly across the country in an airplane the country seems vast; but it isn't vast. It's all connected by roads one can ride a bike down. If you watch the news and there's a tragedy at a house in Kansas, that guy's driveway connects with yours, and you'd be surprised by how few roads it takes to get there.
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I'm a regular person. I know a lot of people love being famous. I don't like it. I'm just chillin'. YouknowwhatI'msayin'?
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It's my private life, and it's not up for grabs.
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You don't think about the danger. The spaceship becomes your home.
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My neighborhood didn't really encourage women, though it didn't prevent women from progressing, either.
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I kind of worry about that a little bit - we lost our film culture for 30 years because the Americans came in and bought up all the cinema chains and wouldn't show any Australian films.
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The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
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Did any artist ever bring more pure joy to more people than Fred Astaire?
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Well, put it like this, if you're not a kid, you're a wizard.
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I don't want to deal with big, grand themes in my stories; art has nothing to do with themes. When you deal with themes, you are not creating; you are lecturing.
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IQ in general has improved since tests first began. Psychologists think that this is because modern life becomes ever more complicated.
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Sometimes, I think the best kind of poem is one in which there is an acute balance between what is humorous and that which is very serious. That balance is very hard to strike. But it can be done.
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Success doesn't mean that you are healthy, success doesn't mean that you're happy, success doesn't mean that you're rested. Success really doesn't mean that you look good, or feel good, or are good.
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I think sometimes good sentimentality is fun when it's balanced.
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It puzzled me that other people hadn't found out, too. God was gone. We were younger. We had reached past him. Why couldn't they see it? It still puzzles me.
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It seems that, culturally, young people function more in groups. They know each other through digital media. All the young comedy people who work in TV are really used to working at the table with lots of writers around. They're comfortable in the group; they don't assert their own egos over everyone else.
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I never intended to be in show business; I intended to be an extremely grounded person.
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I am not a fashion freak!
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I don't think I would do better books if I wrote full time. I write for amateurish reasons.
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No one can live entirely on their own, nor can any country or society exist in isolation.
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I love living in the country, so much so that I'm even surprised by it. I have met lots of interesting people - the community was really welcoming, and I now probably have a more interesting social life than I did in the city.
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In our town there was a Gestapo officer who loved to play chess. After the occupation began, he found out that my father was the chess master of the region, and so he had him to his house every night.
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We don't believe in fighting other democratic forces of this country.
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Vaccines save lives; fear endangers them. It's a simple message parents need to keep hearing.
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When you fly across the country in an airplane the country seems vast; but it isn't vast. It's all connected by roads one can ride a bike down. If you watch the news and there's a tragedy at a house in Kansas, that guy's driveway connects with yours, and you'd be surprised by how few roads it takes to get there.
