Steven Millhauser Quotes

I expected no miracles; I wasn't young enough for dreams; I knew in my bones that I couldn't escape my troubles by changing the view from my window.”

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• The best thing an actor can be is flexible, because all directors are different and all actors are different.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Different
  • Best
  • Actor

• Apparently 'The Office' plays in Brazil. Who would've thought that Brazilians would identify with a bunch of pasty white Scrantonians in a paper company? But the Brazilians I've met have really loved the show.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • Thought
  • Loved
  • Brazil

• The Canadian franchises and Canada as a market for NHL hockey has always been a priority for us.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Always
  • Priority
  • Hockey

• Understanding the importance of evolving is very important. Reinventing is very important. To break what you have already done is very important. That growth should never stop.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Important
  • Done
  • Stop

• As a nation, Kuwait has been, arguably, free of freedom itself. Claimed in turn by Constantinople, Riyadh, and Baghdad, Kuwait has survived by playing Turks off Persians, Arabs off one another, and the English off everyone.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Free
  • Freedom
  • English

• The truth about filmmaking is you have all these ideas and you're trying to convince everybody that they should buy into this idea, but at two o'clock in the morning when you're all on your own you're going, 'Geez, I hope I know what I'm doing. I hope this idea is gonna work.'

  

  Gavid Hood
  • Work
  • Trying
  • Truth

• I have always despised people who thought they were better than others, and I made a promise to myself that I'd never turn into that kind of person. My family also helps to keep me grounded. Whenever I get a 'diva moment,' as they like to call it, they let me know it and say, 'Stop acting like a diva!' They're pretty good at it, too.

  

  Jackie Evancho
  • People
  • Good
  • Family

• One thing that has made us so successful is that we've never taken outside investment. That means we can concentrate on what our customers want - not what the stockholders or the VCs want.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • Want
  • Taken
  • Successful

• I feel like I'm the luckiest actress in the world.

  

  Kate Flannery
  • World
  • Like
  • Feel

• I feel like we can't pick who we fall in love with because if we could, we would all make better choices. Your heart just falls where it falls.

  

  Hannah Simone
  • Heart
  • Love
  • Fall

• Indian-styled garments are very popular in the U.S., especially in areas near the beach, like Hawaii and Los Angeles.

  

  Maggie Grace
  • Popular
  • Beach
  • Los Angeles

• If I respect myself and believe in what I'm doing, no one can touch me.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Believe
  • Respect
  • Myself

• I think in any profession, in general, you always imagine yourself at the top of it. And I'm not trying to say I'm at the top of my profession, but I've seen what the top people do and what the top people live like. And that's definitely something I want to be a part of.

  

  Jacob Batalon
  • People
  • Live
  • Trying

• Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • Time
  • Ability
  • Reputation

• I respect the people who buy my records and come to my concerts. It's only fair that I always try to give them the very best that's in me. After all, I need them more than they need me.

  

  Andy Gibb
  • People
  • Respect
  • Always

• So now the devil's in my soul.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • Soul
  • Devil
  • My Soul

• The industrial economy which divides society absolutely into two portions, the payers of wages and the receivers of them, the first counted by thousands and the last by millions, is neither fit for, nor capable of, indefinite duration: and the possibility of changing this system for one of combination without dependence, and unity of interest instead of organized hostility, depends altogether upon the future developments of the Partnership principle.

  

  John Stuart Mill
  • Economy
  • Changing
  • Dependence

• Making Congress into a less crisis-driven institution starts with electing members of Congress who can take the long view.

  

  Raja Krishnamoorthi
  • View
  • Congress
  • Members

• I think that people with differing points of view find common ground in 'Modern Family' is very flattering, and I'm appreciative of that.

  

  Steven Levitan
  • Family
  • View
  • Appreciative

• Of all the virtues related to intellectual functioning, the most passive is the virtue of knowing the right answer. Knowing the right answer requires no decisions, carries no risks, and makes no demands. It is automatic. It is thoughtless

  

  Eleanor Duckworth
  • Knowing
  • Risks
  • Virtues

• To handle the economy and services in a country like Iraq requires delegation of authority and the choice of competent people.

  

  Ahmed Chalabi
  • People
  • Country
  • Choices

• I expected no miracles; I wasn't young enough for dreams; I knew in my bones that I couldn't escape my troubles by changing the view from my window.”

  

  Steven Millhauser
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