Steven Millhauser Quotes
The more the mouse pursues this line of of thought, the more it seems to him that the cat is a large, soft mouse.
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TV is like a school. It is easy to shoot for a film. In movies, you have a definite start and end. You know your character is there for a particular period.
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A victim is a victim is a victim. We should stop setting up standards that say we will have one standard of law enforcement for one group of victims but not for another.
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I have my own faith which I've developed. It's non-denominational. I don't even know if it's about God.
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For neither life nor nature cares if justice is ever done or not.
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I didn't want to set up a women's studies program. I thought women should learn to operate in a coeducational atmosphere, because, especially in national security and international affairs, it's male-dominated.
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One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.
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My schedulers keep getting driven crazy by the fact that they can't fit hikes in my schedule.
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I get paid the same money if I'm fighting on pay-per-view or on Fight Pass, and Fight Pass is just getting started. It's the future. The Internet, many people watch it.
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I won't allow magazines in the house. When I was younger, I wanted to have my hair cut like so-and-so in the class above me at school, not somebody in a magazine. You see young girls trying to dress like so-and-so because they've seen lots of pictures of them.
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Where I'm from is like 'Hustle & Flow' versus '8 Mile.' It's that really grimy, box-Chevy, dope-boy, working-class music.
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When you're getting old, obviously you try to put on the best cream, you have massages, you try to stay beautiful, but I think wrinkles can sometimes be more beautiful than having none.
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I try to stay consciously away from the roles of the girl who throws herself at the leading man, because I've done it a lot and I want to move on. I ticked that box.
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If it feels right and I'm not going against any energy in myself or the situation, there would be no limit.
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The knife of corruption endangered the life of New York City. The scalpel of the law is making us well again.
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I have very much been a guy who's acknowledged how many women have directed me, have produced... it's been unbelievable.
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Two records put me over the top with hip-hop. One of them was 'Planet Rock,' and the other had no lyrics – it was called 'Numbers,' from a group called Kraftwerk. Every kid in the 'hood in New York and New Jersey was popping, locking, and breaking to that record. It was the hottest track on the street at the time.
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White sharks and tuna travel for thousands of miles before returning to the same hot spot just as salmon do when they return to the same stream. These journeys are the marine equivalent of wildebeest migrations that take place on the Serengeti plain in Africa.
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I don't know that a lot of boys read 'Rookie', but we get quite a few nice comments and e-mails from them. To say I'm devoted to making it girls-only is a little extreme, because I don't actively try to exclude everyone else, just make sure girls know that this space is for them first and foremost.
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When I was 23, I went backpacking around Australia for three months. I saved up a few grand, quit my job and flew to Sydney, then went to Melbourne and up the East Coast, which was an incredible experience. I remember running out of money and getting my mum to send me a few hundred quid, which helped me get by.
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Patience is a noble virtue, and, when rightly exercised, does not fail of its reward.
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Our Bollywood stars who talk of being part of 100 crore films, I think I belong to the 1,000 crore club.
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One nice thing about making jokes is that you don't have to prove them.
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There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.
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The more the mouse pursues this line of of thought, the more it seems to him that the cat is a large, soft mouse.
