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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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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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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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 don't think I would do better books if I wrote full time. I write for amateurish reasons.
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How do you grow up in the shadow of a guy - I want to talk about the movie in a second - but how do you grow up in the shadow of a guy who really is a legend in his own time?
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I was born in Brazil and grew up in the '70s under a climate of political distress, and I was forced to learn to communicate in a very specific way - in a sort of a semiotic black market. You couldn't really say what you wanted to say; you had to invent ways of doing it. You didn't trust information very much.
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At the moment I really love listening to the Dave Matthews Band.
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Though Nathalie Dupree did not remember much about my presence in her class, it marked me forever. I remain her enthusiast, her evangelist, her acolyte, and her grateful student. She taught me that cooking and storytelling make the most delightful coconspirators.
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Fatigue makes cowards of us all.
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I treated it like every day was my last day with a basketball.
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When a great artist gets my attention, I pursue it. If I don't, someone else will, you know what I'm saying?
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The idea of being a painter, I've always thought, is better than being an artist or a sculptor.
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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.
