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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It was not like I planned even to be a choreographer. It just happened to me somehow.
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The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
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Thirty was a big deal for me. It was the age where I reevaluated everything - how I approached life and how I thought about myself. When I look at my 20s, or when I look at any period in my life, I think about how much time I've wasted trying to find the right man.
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In terms of style I typically veer toward a certain masculinity. My style inspirations range from images of my father in his 1970s suits, to Tilda Swinton, to Hugh Hefner, to Sharon Stone and her ferocious sexuality, to handsome men I see on the streets of New York.
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I myself never feel that I'm sexy. If people call me cute, I am happier.
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People want to join a great story. If you want to lead, tell one with your life.
