Jeff Miller Quotes
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In the U.S., we didn't have scale, and without scale, it's difficult to operate.
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When I was signed, that was before the punk thing even happened.
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The most promising ideas begin from novelty and then add familiarity.
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It's interesting because what I do and what I sing is, to other people, pretty unique. I feel I'm creating my own path... and I'm working on growing as a performer.
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We certainly don't yet know all the answers. But the universe is about to be pried open.
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I think it's a tough road if you're a stay-at-home mom, a working mom, if you have a partner, if you don't. It's the best job in the world, and the toughest job in the world all at the same time.
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I want to make movies, TV series, wherever the career takes me.
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My hockey is good, but my ice skating is terrible. It's a bit of a mess to watch!
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Seven innings, three starts in a row, that's an improvement for me, and that's what I want to do: be out there in the game longer.
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Our parents have always encouraged us to be independent and dream big.
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The advice that I can give anyone wanting to be in the biz: do all the work, learn your craft. There are no shortcuts. If you stay with it, you will get an opportunity.
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I don't think you should be allowed to eat in a restaurant if you haven't waited tables at least once. It's so irritating when I see people being rude to waiters, like, it makes me want to slit their throats! Like, really? You're really this inconsiderate?
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There is no happiness. There is only concentration.
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Great leadership isn’t shaped in the absence of opposition but in the presence of it. Great leaders draw us together by our universal humanity; they galvanize the wills of the willing; they draw clarity from the spigot of chaos.
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Problems cannot all be solved, for, as they are solved, new aspects are continually revealed: the historian opens the way, he does not close it.
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A man is a fool who sits looking backward from himself in the past. Ah, what shallow, vain conceit there is in man! Forget the things that are behind. That is not where you live. Your roots are not there. They are in the present; and you should reach up into the other life.
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But there's a twist. There's always a twist.
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People think once you get famous and rich you move out of the public sphere and you have nothing left to write about. I've heard that - Bruce Springsteen was this real street boy, now he's got this big house. How does that compute? If you don't look at the material side of someone's life, if you look at more the emotional side, there's always a wealth of stuff to write about.
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Advice is one of those things it is far more blessed to give than to receive.
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What advice do you have for writers working on their first novels?If you feel called to write a book, consider it a gift. Look around you. What assistance is the universe offering you as support? I was given an amazing mentor, a poet, Eleanor Drewry Dolan, who taught me the importance of every word. To my utter amazement, there were times she found it necessary to consult three dictionaries to evaluate one word.
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How others judge me is none of my business.
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...the facility at Guantanamo Bay is necessary to national security.
