Michael McMillian Quotes
For every problem, there exists a solution...and at the very least...an opportunity.
Quotes to Explore
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I tend to lean toward strong female stories. I want to make things that don't already exist out there.
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You have to find out how to become the character.
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I don't think at Pixar we'd ever make something that was too scary for general audiences.
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Unless they're superhuman, nobody's going to look perfect all the time.
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If I'd had the chance, I'd like to have completed my degree before going full-time, and sports journalism was something that always interested me. Dad used to buy a paper, and I always turned straight to the sports pages.
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I always say it took me 10 minutes to write 'Cars,' but if I am honest it could have been even less than that - and it has been a really successful song over the years. It is still massively used, in advertising, in films, and people do cover versions of it a lot.
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The physical ego serves as its own worst enemy when, by delusive material behavior, it eclipses its true nature as the ever blessed soul.
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I just like a good story. I want the story to be good, and I want the character to be different than the last one I played. That's not always possible, but that's what I want.
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I hear a little firecracker go off when you come up with a good rhyme.
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Stopping to think is fine for characters, but not for their creators. They have to work.
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The kind of audience I'm speaking to is a very wide range of people.
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To say I'm the easiest person to live with would be a lie.
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Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great.
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It's nice to know there are some things in early 21st-century post-industrial culture that don't change very fast. I am one of those.
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You simply cannot continue a nation as America without that Christian base of liberty.
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I would be ecstatic if the very first writer to step foot in a Storyknife cabin was an Alaska Native woman writer.
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Now almost every artist outside of New York is connected with some school or some museum school, and even in New York the majority are. That's an interesting fact when you take the idea of making money, making a living selling paintings. Only a dozen or two painters do that.
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I believe in nourishment and having a balanced diet. I avoid bingeing and try and eat healthy, especially lots of amla, and drink lots and lots of water.
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Many man's scruples lie almost wholly about obedience to authority and compliance with indifferent customs, but very seldom about the dangers of disobedience and unpeaceableness and rending in pieces the Church of Christ by needless separations and endless divisions.
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We're not ever interested in repeating ourselves or doing what people expect us to do, it's such a turn off.
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I never had a problem resisting somebody that I knew was going to break my heart.
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As a director and filmmaker, I love creating my own opportunity, and getting to share the love, in that way, by creating other opportunities for people that I admire, so that they can do something in a way they haven't done it before.
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We can't keep playing catch up as we have done for every season I've been here.
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For every problem, there exists a solution...and at the very least...an opportunity.
