Donald Miller Quotes
I think writers can get a little melodramatic sometimes about their work, and it helps me not to do that, to just say, "Well, this is how I make a living, and I need to become a very good craftsman."
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Manhood coerced into sensitivity is no manhood at all.
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I love to smell like roses, literally all day!
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I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
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It's nature-nurture, right? I've been nurtured by Californians.
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I'm not being offered a constant stream of wonderful parts with wonderful directors that would keep me away from the theatre. When they turn up, I do them.
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What is important, then, is not that the critic should possess a correct abstract definition of beauty for the intellect, but a certain kind of temperament, the power of being deeply moved by the presence of beautiful objects.
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There are wonderful restaurants in London. I love Indian food and I like Arab food, and I go very often to the Arab restaurant Noura.
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Acting doesn't have to be threadbare misery all the time.
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Free societies are societies in motion, and with motion comes friction.
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Lastly, his tomb shall list and founder in the troughs of grass. And none shall speak his name.
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I want to be the first person to laugh at myself. It makes other people feel at ease - we're all on an even playing field.
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I am not the kind of leader who pontificates about what should be done - I don't operate on scenarios, and I am not a prophet.
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I just want to show the fans my big smile and play the game that I love.
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There are so many stories from the Midwest that should be told. L.A. tells one story, and it's often about itself.
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I've always thought that we are what we remember, and the less we remember, the less we are.
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I'd like to help educate kids about the Major Leagues - what to anticipate, what to expect, what they'll need to do to prepare themselves.
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Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.
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I wanted to write a novel that would make others feel the history: the pain and fear that black people have had to live through in order to endure.
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When you mix fashion and politics, you get fascism. Politics have fashion, and it's bad; fashion has politics, that are ugly.
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There's nothing more fun than putting on an old costume and jewelry and being in a house that's decorated from the '20s or '30s or whatever.
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All history is an attempt to find pattern and meaning in a section of human experience, and every historian worthy of the name raises questions about man's ultimate destiny and the meaning of all history to which, as history, he can provide no answers. The answers belong to the realm of theology.
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Stop pretending there's anything wrong with businesspeople hiring diligent laborers who will work for less. Let employers sponsor any worker and argue for why that worker should be given citizenship. Such a vetting mechanism would naturally promote the best and hardest-working.
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Faith doesn't mean you don't have to do the work; it just means you're absolutely certain the work will pay off.
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I think writers can get a little melodramatic sometimes about their work, and it helps me not to do that, to just say, "Well, this is how I make a living, and I need to become a very good craftsman."
