Donald Miller Quotes
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I feel pressure, but my emotions just don't show that much in my face.
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Who knows what would have become of me, if my parents had not had their influence on me.
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Both my parents are Scottish, and although I grew up in Canada after moving over, all of my family are proud to be Scots.
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One thing that we decided very early in the relationship is that when he goes, we all go - the whole family.
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I have a deep and ongoing love of Iceland, particular the landscape, and when writing 'Burial Rites,' I was constantly trying to see whether I could distill its extraordinary and ineffable qualities into a kind of poetry.
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You get to a point where you really can't manage more artists, because representing artists takes a lot of time.
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The thing that can get kind of annoying is, when you travel so much, how hectic it gets. I was being interviewed once - it was a phone interview - and they said, 'Where are you right now?' and I didn't know where I was.
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I understand acting and I understand actors. I don't really understand the world of celebrity. That's just bizarre. Those sorts of elements I'm at sea with.
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I truly believe that you have to bring more content to the table to survive in radio than saying, 'There was AC/DC, and here's Journey,' because computers can do that.
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A lot of the time when I write about the person that I love, I feel like I'm writing about New York.
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Making music is fantastic.
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'Good English' is whatever educated people talk; so that what is good in one place or time would not be so in another.
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For some reason, I spent my early thirties reading as much postwar Hungarian fiction as I could get my hands on.
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I used to have a very unmediated experience of food but, because of the recipe testing, I've lost that now. I can't switch it off even when I'm on holiday.
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To have so many years in the rap industry and so many number one songs, and sold so many millions of records, introduced the world to people like Cool & Dre, DJ Khaled, Pitbull, Rick Ross, Trick Daddy, Remy Ma, Big Pun, Rico Love... I could go on and on. Having been able to influence the rap game for so long is very important to me.
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I'm lucky to come from a very musical family. If you put a record on and turn the volume up, there's a pretty good chance you'll have a lot of people dancing very quickly.
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Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.
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I'd like to be curvier.
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I guess it's hard work... whatever the decision is, how to show it to people that aren't necessarily dancers, how to get people to think about more than themselves.
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Man flows at once to God when the channel of purity is open.
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I want to make the greatest record ever made. It's the only thing I can think about.
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If it's nice out, I swim pretty much every day for about half an hour. I have a great pool; it's very private and not too many people use it.
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I'm most scared of failing, of disappointing people.
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People want to join a great story. If you want to lead, tell one with your life.
