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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Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is the easiest for a journalist.
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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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Rest when you're weary. Refresh and renew yourself, your body, your mind, your spirit. Then get back to work.
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Sometimes I felt as a writer I was purging, and it almost hurt to purge to that level. Now it doesn't feel that way, maybe because I'm older. Maybe life has given me some punches, but it didn't knock me down.
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Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.
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The whole world has American dreams. This country has people from all parts of the world. We have Irish who live here, we have Brazilians.
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Why are there organized beings? Why is there something rather than nothing? Here again, I fully understand a scientist who refuses to ask it. He is welcome to tell me that the question does not make sense. Scientifically speaking, it does not. Metaphysically speaking, however, it does. Science can account for many things in the world; it may some day account for all that which the world of phenomena actually is. But why anything at all is, or exists, science knows not, precisely because it cannot even ask the question.
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For every problem, there exists a solution...and at the very least...an opportunity.
