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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I'm a little bit perverse, and I just hate doing the thing that's the most obvious.
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I think any time you have a super team, whether it's all men or all women or both, what you have are people with very unique strengths that aren't always totally compatible.
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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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Poetry teaches us music, metaphor, condensation and specificity.
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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'm trying to make perfect moments. And those generate meaning. If you go deep enough in how to make a moment, very quickly you come to how narrative works - to what we are as a species, how we've come up with telling stories in scenes and images.
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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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The only thing I do worry about is that the more films I do the more visible I am going to become as a personality because of press and because of the sheer quantity of films.
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Anxiety is the essential condition of intellectual and artistic creation and everything that is finest in human history.
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When I'm a bit sad, I often go for a drive in the country, quite fast with my music up.
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Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.
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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.
