Donald Miller Quotes
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Nixon was the most dishonest individual I have ever met in my life. He lied to his wife, his family, his friends, his colleagues in the Congress, lifetime members of his own political party, the American people and the world.
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Alan Rickman's Hans Gruber is the greatest bad guy in a movie ever.
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You have to find out how to become the character.
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Do you know why dogs are man's best friend? It's because they're not in politics.
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He was just trying to tease me - I knew that later - but he said he'd have to leave because it wasn't fair to have anyone in the room who was going to make fun of what he had to say. He had a good sense of humor, really.
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I'm not the best at video games, but I play them a lot.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.
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Man is largely a creature of habit, and many of his activities are more or less automatic reflexes from the stimuli of his environment.
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Politicians read the polls that show 85 or 90 percent of the voters profess a belief in God, so they identify themselves with religion, often only to the degree necessary to reach the constituency they are targeting.
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I don't think that when I'm acting I feel like I lose myself to it, but that sense of losing, that sense of discomfort, well, I guess maybe that comes a bit! It's about redefining what 'uncomfortable' means for you.
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I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.
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The falsification of scientific data or analysis is always a serious matter.
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If you're a casting director, you're going to be curious to see what Timothy Spall's son is like. But when you get in the door, you have to have something to offer.
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I found poetry at 12 and 13 and, lo and behold, learned that my attorney father had a background in poetry - as he wore dashikis and Afros in the '70s and named his kids Arabic names. He was a poet and a lot like The Last Poets and Gil Scott-Heron and all of these folks. He definitely was an artist.
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I like an even-keeled, slow-paced job.
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A woman never forgets her sex. She would rather talk with a man than an angel, any day.
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I think if you are creative then it's an unstoppable thing. It just keeps coming throughout your entire life.
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I really don't spend time thinking about the past. I think about the future. I'm not stopping.
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It's almost like he's started to sound even more exotic the more people started doing him. I don't know why, but there's just something about Al Gore that makes me laugh.
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My host at Richmond, yesterday morning, could not sufficiently express his surprise that I intended to venture to walk as far as Oxford, and still farther. He however was so kind as to send his son, a clever little boy, to show me the road leading to Windsor.
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I identify as a feminist. I have so many feminist beliefs - and then I'm so mean to myself about my body sometimes.
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Read carefully anything that requires your signature. Remember the big print giveth and the small print taketh away.
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To change the world you'll need a pen.
