Donald Miller Quotes
If the point of life is the same as the point of a story, the point of life is character transformation.
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I clearly believe a lot more than some of my coalition colleagues - Tories - in redistribution and using the tax system for that purpose. I also believe in the government having an active role in the economy, which is having an industrial strategy. I'm not a believer in laissez-faire.
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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
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I was with the Jessie Bonstelle Stock Company in Detroit and Buffalo for three seasons - 10 performances and a new play every week. She was an amazing woman who did a great deal for me.
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The Irish do not want anyone to wish them well; they want everyone to wish their enemies ill.
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Our party never tolerated those who use violence for political ends. Our leaders lost their lives standing against terrorism.
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I started working for the 'NY Observer' when I was 33. After I had been writing for them for about a year and a half the editor said, 'Your stories are the most talked about stories in the 'Observer'; you should have your own column.'
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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Like parents, cooks shouldn't have favourites, but some recipes inevitably shine more than others.
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I fell in love, not deep, but I fell several times and then fell out.
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If I don't eat something after I work out, I get shaky and cranky - not a good combination when you're a television host.
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If I were governor, and a bill came to my desk that provided for background checks at gun shows, I would sign that.
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It is not proper to project our feelings onto things or to attribute our own sensations and passions to them. Can it also be improper to see in them a guide, a way of life?
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If the sun comes up, I have a chance.
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I'm at like 325 pairs right now, give or take. But I've given away about 200 pairs of sneakers. I'm not as big of a collector as I used to be, because I think the game just got weird. Everybody likes to collect now, so it's kind of corny. But I got the essentials.
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You know, I have the best parents in the world and I got really, really lucky because they think that everything I do is Oscar-worthy.
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The subject of Finnish poetry ought to have a special interest for the Japanese student, if only for the reason that Finnish poetry comes more closely in many respects to Japanese poetry than any other form of Western poetry.
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What I love about 'Midnight Train' is that it's a song about a journey, but the music actually takes you on that journey. It feels like you're moving through the whole song.
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Years ago women of my size were considered royalty.
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He's a mean, mean man, but I love him all I can.
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I'm not going to be the next Colin Farrell or Orlando Bloom.
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If you think down, you will go down. If you think up, you will go up. You’ll always travel in the direction of your thinking.
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I didn't follow big box office ideas. That eventually led me to witches. It's led me to find interesting roles.
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I remember a time when I was younger, when if you had to see an actor, you had to go to the theatre and watch a film.
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If the point of life is the same as the point of a story, the point of life is character transformation.
