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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D.C. is where I started. That's home for me. I always love coming back to the area. They treat me so well, and people show up. They're excited and claim me as their own. I love it.
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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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My father took one of the toughest jobs in the government because he cared about his nation more than himself. His courage and conviction have always driven me to want to make a difference.
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It's interesting what pops out of an author's subconscious when he's not thinking about it.
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There's a lot of pride that business owners have. It's actually really critical that pride and ownership extends to everyone in the organization. I think of everyone is in the same boat in driving the company forward.
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I remember everyone in my nursery school class getting a carton of milk before the day started. Only, I got mine about 20 minutes later than everyone else because it had to be kept on the radiator for a short while. I liked warm milk when I was small.
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No man stops caring as long as he breathes. As long as he has a mind and memory, he will care. This is what separates us from the animals. We have feelings.
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Good writers show rather than tell. Stories are told in action. Life stories are no different.
