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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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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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 really don't spend time thinking about the past. I think about the future. I'm not stopping.
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Accept what people offer. Drink their milkshakes. Take their love.
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So you have to keep waiting and then they give you the script and it's terrible. Then you have to go to the rewrite and they're very upset because you didn't like it. I went through that for seven years.
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Who doesn't love a 'Lifetime' movie? I think that they know their audience so well.
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I was always writing the books that I wanted to write, books that demanded to be written at the time. But, like most writers, you start off feeling your way.
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Technological discoveries are the spermatozoa of social change.
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The Time to Succeed Coalition brings together an unprecedented group of leaders from education and business, communities and academia to say that it is time to strike the shackles of an outdated school calendar from our disadvantaged schools.
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To change the world you'll need a pen.
