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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I'm not the type of player to sit home and practice scales and work on runs.
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My dad loves to cook. I'm half Thai, and growing up, that's all we ate in my house. My dad was very big on the idea that dinnertime and cooking time was also family time.
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Decades of research has shown that play is crucial to physical, intellectual, and social-emotiona l development at all ages. This is especially true of the purest form of play: the unstructured, self-motivated, imaginative, independent kind, where children initiate their own games and even invent their own rules.
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I enjoyed both equally, but in different ways, ... Maynard gave me the chance to do wonderful word comedy...When I was offered Gilligan, I chose it because that character gave me the chance to do physical comedy, which I love.
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Viewing the web as a platform for generosity is very different than seeing an opportunity to turn it into an ATM machine.
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Good writers show rather than tell. Stories are told in action. Life stories are no different.
