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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The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.
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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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So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.
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I like being active and riding a bike around my neighborhood and exercising when I can.
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I am just enjoying what cricket has given me. In sports, it's obviously really important for all of us to remain fit - and health is wealth, so health comes with the sport.
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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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Diplomacy in a sense is the opposite of writing. You have to disperse yourself so much: the lady who comes in crying because she's had a fight with the secretary; exports and imports; students in trouble; thumbtacks for the embassy.
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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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He always violated your expectations. … He was a character.
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I think I do have a sort of terrible propensity for boredom and for being bored, even though I am absolutely of the opinion that one shouldn't be bored and that there is no excuse for it and that it is a personal failing.
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I am never wrong when it comes to my possibilities.
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Good intentions have been the ruin of the world. The only people who have achieved anything have been those who have had no intentions at all.
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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.
