Merton Miller Quotes
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A woman should be an illusion.
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Yes, I'm proud to be indigenous. I'm half-Quechua-Huachipaeri from Peru.
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I have been very fortunate in my life. I think I have an angel that is always with me. Good projects always come to me.
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I found it more challenging to act in a small scene, especially if it has no dialogue and if it is a close-up with only expressions.
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I'm in so many videos. There was a period of about two years where I danced for everyone: Kylie Minogue, Ed Sheeran, Jessie J, Taio Cruz. It got to the point where my fees were double the other girls', and I wouldn't even have to audition. They'd call my agent directly and say, 'We want twigs to come in.'
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If you're driving, and a cop is behind you, you automatically think they're going to pull you over, but cops have so much more going on than to think about pulling you over. The last thing a real cop wants to do is write a ticket. That's the truth.
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When incomes and bonuses decrease, revenues falter, and businesses stumble, it's more important than ever to give - not necessarily more, but in a way that matters more. When incomes are down and wallets are stretched, the effectiveness of our giving is what really counts.
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It used to be that when an actress reached thirty, she was considered almost washed up.
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The test of good manners is to be able to put up pleasantly with bad ones.
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An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.
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The first job of a writer is to be honest.
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The man who trusts men will make fewer mistakes than he who distrusts them.
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For example, I noticed that every single kid in the high school in 'The Death-Ray' is based on somebody I went to high school with.
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I am not a sad clown. I am not a sad clown.
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That's what I love about acting, is playing different roles. I want to work for the character, and not make it work for me.
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If one basic axiom controls the cosmos, it must be this: In a situation of infinity every possible condition occurs, not once, but an infinite number of times.
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In our view any awareness is an increment to consciousness, an added light, a reinforcement of psychic coherence. Its swiftness or instantaneity can hide this growth from us. But there is a growth of being in every instance of awareness. Consciousness is in itself an act, the human act.
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What people have got to remember is that Sept. 11 happened in 2001 and not in 2003. It was planned under the presidency of Bill Clinton.
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My countrymen: we have reached a turning point in our history. The choice is yours. Shall we venture into this brave new world, bright with possibilities, or retreat to the safety of our familiar but sterile past? I am for crossing the frontier.
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All right. Let's give you something to tell your grandkids about. Or great-grandkids. Or great-great-grandkids." I snort with glee, delirious with excitement. Charlie winks and pours me another finger's worth of whiskey. Then, on second thought, he tips the bottle again. I reach out and grab its neck. "Better not," I say. "Don't want to get tipsy and break a hip.
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That's how I found myself in the advertising world, with my partner. I was trying to get a tape of me doing something that I thought was funny.
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So if there was a way that I knew something about my character's desires or the things that they were resisting because I was saving it for some grand epiphany moment for my readers, I just feel like that's when you can feel the machine at work in a story. That's when you can feel the writer pulling the strings of the puppet.
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What counts is what you do with your money, not where it came from.
