Donald Miller Quotes
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There is no sense in making a film that no-one will go and see, just to create a perfect, but useless, work of art.
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Most actors, if you ask them if they play guitar, they'll say they played guitar for 20 years, but what they really mean is they've owned a guitar for 20 years.
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I am a very reclusive, private person.
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I try to give the appearance that I have it all together and that I know what I'm talking about, but at the end of the day, I think I might be full of crap.
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I think watching Channing Tatum caress his Lego Oscar statue will be something I won't forget. Even if I try.
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There is no better high than discovery.
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I don't understand why there aren't more powerful female directors. I don't have the answers, but I hope that things may start to shift and that studios will employ more women to handle strong and interesting material.
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Everything is tennis for me, it's my career and it's entertainment, but it's also a business.
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Forty percent of my portfolio is in the U.S. In the rest of the world, most of the places I invest in or invested in are Brazil, Russia, Germany with a little bit of Turkey, China, India, France and Israel sprinkled in there.
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Opening acts are hard, really hard. There's more politics involved than music, sometimes.
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I've refined my mechanics, refined my pitches. I've gotten more confidence, and I've gotten more determination. I've got a better idea what I'm doing out there.
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Every 20 minutes you've got to have a bump, you've got to have a change in course, you've got to unsettle the audience. It can't be too predictable so something has to happen. I think that was something that Hitchcock did very well too. You couldn't let an audience feel too settled in.
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Michael Jackson and I talk all the time. I think we understand each other in a way that most people can't understand either of us.
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I want to be proactive in bringing about change and enlightening people.
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My mother was adorable, a great giggler. My father was very strong and could be quite frightening.
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I'm a big fan of Samantha Bee's.
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People who know me, they know I have a sense of humor, I'm a bit of a joker, a bit of a clown really, and I would love someone to exploit that side of me and send me a romantic comedy.
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What I think is sad about the rom-com genre is that it has adopted this pejorative title. I think the reason why there haven't been as many great ones is because we are fighting against the genre itself. If it is a romantic comedy then snuggle up to the fact that it can be a really earnest, refreshing feeling to feel good after a movie.
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Over the years I have had the most contact with Lee Kuan Yew, most recently in 2006, and have always found him impressive, even though we do not always see eye to eye. I met him first when he was George Shultz's guest at the famous (or infamous, depending on your perspective) Bohemian Grove, a male only bonding retreat among the redwoods of California.
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The team with the best players wins.
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I think in life we want to challenge ourselves.
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There are almost unlimited possibilities for making discoveries and to uncover the unknown. It is in the nature of the discovery that it can not be planned or programmed. On the contrary it consists of surprises and appears many times in the most unexpected places.
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God isn't interested in stock phrases. Talk to him. Talk to the Father sincerely.
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God doesn't give us crying, pooping children because he wants to advance our careers.
