Donald Miller Quotes
I'm just trying to make the point that the story we're telling ourselves is often very different from the story we're telling the people around us.
Quotes to Explore
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In the north we could not hope to keep the worst and poorest servant for a single day in the wretched discomfort in which our negro servants are forced habitually to live.
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In thinking about it, the villains often have a little bit more range because their morality is different. You can have just a really good time as an actor, and there is just more there that you can explore on that side of the story.
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If you write genre fiction, you follow the rules, and you have to follow them because readers expect that.
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I had a sense of what leadership meant and what it could do for you. So am I surprised that I am sitting up here on the 62nd floor of Rockefeller Plaza? No.
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The devil made me do it.
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Conor McGregor is a tough competitor. He proved throughout the years in the UFC that he can fight standing up.
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I think what you wear really does need to reflect what your own personal style is.
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I love the fact that everyone's trying to be good-looking in L.A. - then I turn up and I get work.
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My birthday is Feb. 11, and I'm both excited and not excited by it. You'll never be 15 again, and you really, really need to savor every day like it's your last.
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When I got into college, I found what ultimately became my life's work. I couldn't sleep at night, I was so excited about it. So I'm attracted to people who play at that level. They actually want to play in their professional life.
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I just like art. I get pure pleasure from it. I have a lot of wonderful paintings, and every time I look at them I see something different.
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I am what they call a chubby-skinny guy. I appear to be normal and have the look of an in-shape man, but if we were to go to a pool party I would go with my shirt on.
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I took Latin and Spanish. I can speak a very small amount of Spanish, but Latin has sort of gone away! Unless I was joining the Catholic Church, there would be no need to learn Latin.
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Our house was awash in books, and my mother doled out her favorites like they were special treats - which they were.
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The 'Hercules' role just kind of came to me, but I had a lot of fun trying something new.
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MusiCares was really good to me. I can't say enough how MusiCares helps other people. They really, really helped me. They have the greatest groups and support for musicians in recovery.
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What we call a poem is mostly what is not there on the page. The strength of any poem is the poems that it has managed to exclude.
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You learn to read the audiences after a while, and there are all different kinds of gigs.
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I usually just go on Google and spend my hours just Googling Jennifer Beals. I think it's possible that I have a slightly unordinary obsession with her. YouTube videos. Interviews with her. Pictures I put on my desktop and my phone.
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I'm okay with myself. I had times when I was 15 about 'Who I am?' and 'What am I?' and where I want to go, and that's behind me.
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I find a tremendous receptivity among the public for the subject matter of, 'Where did we come from and how did we get here?' People are thirsty and hungry for information on our origins. I feel a responsibility as a major figure in the area... to convey to the public the knowledge of human origins in a way that is understandable to them.
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When you're on tour with the band, it's a different mentality. You don't sightsee because you're making sure you can do the show. But in musicals, I don't have to sing or play: I just have to use my brain, and the rest of the time, I'm free.
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I went every Sunday to church when I was growing up, and I think that music had an affect on me before my memory can recall.
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I'm just trying to make the point that the story we're telling ourselves is often very different from the story we're telling the people around us.
