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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I am a Moroccan writer of French expression.
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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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Don't stink up the place with bad acting, if an opportunity comes your way.
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Our problem is this: we usually discover him within some denominational or Christian ghetto. We meet him in a province and, having caught some little view, we paint him in smaller strokes. The Lion of Judah is reduced to something kittenish because our understanding cannot, at first, write larger definitions.
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It seems important to find ways of reminding ourselves that most 'familiarity' is meditated and delusive.
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The sort of commercial parameters of classical music changed after the World War II, and the whole industry became more backward-looking.
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For every problem, there exists a solution...and at the very least...an opportunity.
