Steven Millhauser Quotes
I had thought that words were instruments of precision. Now I know that they devour the world, leaving nothing in its place.
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What is more important? What the members of a politicised tribunal say, or what the citizens vote for? For me, it is clear.
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My own being can be judged by the depths I reach in making these historical origins my own.
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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
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Now that we have a true leader who stands for family and has a loving relationship with his wife, maybe black men and women will follow their example. We have a lot of faith and trust in President Obama because his integrity thus far has shown us a new level of manhood, fatherhood and husbandhood.
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Progress, real progress, makes me cry harder than anything. When the world itself grows.
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I was very good in all the maths and sciences.
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My dad is afraid of my laugh.
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As a child, I wanted to go into advertising. I had a love affair with the advertising industry.
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Why does Israel always have to suffer for others to feel bad for it?
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I absolutely have not spoken to Marvel. It doesn't mean that my team hasn't spoken to Marvel.
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I think New York audiences are some of the brightest in the world, and certainly the most enthusiastic.
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Publication is to thinking as childbirth is to the first kiss.
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I think I am the same kind of person I would have been if I wasn't an actor. I am not a robot.
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All of the troubles that some people have in life is that which they married into.
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I just don't think that I trust men. That's the problem. I can appreciate a beautiful-looking man, but he's not my type.
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What's it to you if I love you?
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But since he hadThe genuis to be loved, why let him haveThe justice to be honoured in his grave.
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There can be no question of political status for someone who is serving a sentence for crime. Crime is crime is crime. It is not political. To give concessions on political status would put many people in jeopardy.
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I like the hot-cold, the sugar-salt, being able to play over-the-top and dramatic things - in the same film. Just as in my life, I can be very funny and at other times almost extinguished.
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It may be that everything the life science companies are telling us will turn out to be right, and there's no problem here whatsoever. That defies logic.
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We always got a strong response but I think in this day in age there is less of a marijuana fog at concerts and more of people just more naturally exuberant - it seems to me.
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The demand for standup in the eighties was created by how easy it was to exploit 'comedians' and create very cheap television programming.
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Literature is always personal, always one man's vision of the world, one man's experience, and it can only be popular when men are ready to welcome the visions of others.
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I had thought that words were instruments of precision. Now I know that they devour the world, leaving nothing in its place.
