Donald Miller Quotes
Good writers show rather than tell. Stories are told in action. Life stories are no different.
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My best friend Rosemarie and I had a very involved secret life when we were in elementary school. After we saw 'The Day the Earth Stood Still' on TV, we invented a whole secret life in which we were twins from the planet Venus, and we were in charge of the entire solar system as well as Earth.
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You must avoid giving hostages to fortune, like getting an expensive wife, an expensive house, and a style of living that never lets you aford the time to take the chance to write what you wish.
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I don't think a lot of actors talk about it, but there's usually a process where you essentially purge yourself of the character that you played prior to the movie.
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I feel like I have so many middle-aged women who look up to me.
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The great thing about America is I've never felt like an outsider. I'm just a different piece of the puzzle.
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Every time I go to Comic-Con, I'm jacked. I want to dress up and walk the floor and answer questions, because I'm excited about it. It's like making new friends.
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I feel like I'd have a different approach to football now after doing music.
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I don't usually wear a lot of makeup because I tend to like a natural look.
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I got into science because I thought that, with inspiration and hard work, I could figure out how life works.
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The only ones who like Milton Berle are his mother - and the public.
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I would never go to a gym. How could I do it? So I tried to do it in my house and it doesn't work.
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Whatever you think of Trump, I think most people would agree he is impulsive, and we certainly have an impulsive leader in North Korea in Kim Jong-un. That's an unholy combination.
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As an actor, I think you should always disappear a little. I act in order to lose myself.
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Well, it's taken a long time to get the Department of Homeland Security established. It's taken a long time for the Congress to decide how much it wanted to fund.
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Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.
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Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. If you look at it to admire it, you are lost.
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I buy way too many books.
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As a player, you just want to focus on controlling the controllables.
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That should be our test regarding immigrants. Those who come to America to tear it down or live off of others should not be welcomed.
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I think that there are many aspects to the relationship between humans and animals. But briefly, humans appear to have always been fascinated by them from the time of cave paintings and before.
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When Lady Gaga says I am her inspiration, you reach kids between 12 and 18. Now I am like a brand - jeans, Coca-Cola.
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When I was studying at the Iowa Writers School, I read a sports writer, Ron Maly, from the Des Moines Register. He was a good sports writer. I became real interested in the contrast between Lute Olson, who was the coach of Iowa at the time, and Ron Maly.
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I did four or five years in telly, and by the end of it was drained. I was a bit sick of myself. I didn't feel like an actor anymore. That sounds silly, but when you're doing a play you're using different muscles, and it blew all the cobwebs away.
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Good writers show rather than tell. Stories are told in action. Life stories are no different.
