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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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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My dad is afraid of my laugh.
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Why does Israel always have to suffer for others to feel bad for it?
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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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Hand in glove, the good people laugh, yes we may be hidden by rags,But we've something they'll never have
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Excitement was plentiful during my two years' service as a Pony Express rider.
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I sing about the things that I don't have conversations about.
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Dramatically, the moment in 'Gravity' that was hardest to nail down is when Ryan is in the Soyuz capsule and she realizes that she's out of fuel. That's when the character's arc gets defined.
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To live past the end of your myth is a perilous thing.
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Our foreign policy has made a wreck of this planet. I'm always in Africa... And when I go to these places I see American policy written on the walls of oppression everywhere.
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I'm still very aware of the violence in our culture, more so than other people. I know where it comes from when someone is trying to suppress someone else, sometimes they fight back.
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I think I'd like to do a big movie with a strong female lead, whether or not she would be a superhero. I'm more interested in characters like Scarlett Johansson in 'Lucy.' I'm less interested in people with superpowers because I can't identify with them.
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I am glad to think I am not bound to make the world go right, but only to discover and to do, with cheerful heart, the work that God appoints.
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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.
