Sue Miller Quotes

There is something truly restorative, finally comforting, in coming to the end of an illusion - a false hope.

Sue Miller

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• I don't choose to make movies as small as the movies I've made. The combined budget of my two films is far under $5 million, but it's just by necessity that it ends up being that way.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • Up
  • Small
  • Movies

• Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Faith
  • Light
  • Dark

• Out of the depths, O Lord, out of the depths,' begins the most beautiful of the services of our church, and it is out of the depths of my life that I must bring the incidents of this story.

  

  Hall Caine
  • Life
  • Beautiful
  • Church

• I suffer from vertigo. It's paralyzing in extreme situations. The most scared I've been as an adult was trying to conquer that fear by going climbing in Wales.

  

  Hari Kunzru
  • Trying
  • Fear
  • Conquer

• It was a struggle financing CNN, but I did it without ever asking the government for a nickel.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Government
  • Struggle
  • Nickel

• Jews have God's promise and if we Christians have it, too, then it is only as those chosen with them, as guests in their house, that we are new wood grafted onto their tree.

  

  Karl Barth
  • God
  • House
  • Tree

• What makes maftoul worth celebrating is that it's so easy and forgiving to cook.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Easy
  • Worth
  • Forgiving

• I want to be treated like a musician.

  

  Halsey
  • Want
  • Like
  • Musician

• It is the responsibility of all the Sudanese, especially the political leaders and the media, to strengthen social cohesion through the proper understanding of the dynamics of unity, if they really want our country to remain united.

  

  Salva Kiir Mayardit
  • Country
  • Political
  • Responsibility

• People are finding it harder and harder to relate to foreign policy.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • People
  • Policy
  • Finding

• I'm pretty lucky to work on both 'CSI: NY' and 'Supernatural.' Not bad gigs!

  

  A. J. Buckley
  • Work
  • Bad
  • Pretty

• I guess you can look at Fleetwood Mac as the 'Pirates Of The Caribbean' movies and my solo career as indie films.

  

  Lindsey Buckingham
  • Career

• People look at me weird because I'm a Howard Stern fan, but he's very misunderstood. It's the first thing I do when I get in my car at a tournament - just pray that I get Howard 100 on Sirius or XM.

  

  Keegan Bradley
  • People
  • Car
  • Weird

• Regret is a short, evocative and achingly beautiful word: an elegy to lost possibilities even in its brief annunciation.

  

  David Whyte
  • Beautiful
  • Lost
  • Regret

• It is clear a Palestinian state is needed.

  

  Martti Ahtisaari

• I don't want the child in me to die. Fortunately, I'm lucky enough that my profession allows me to pursue my boyhood fantasies even as an adult.

  

  Ajith Kumar
  • Die

• I don't want to be known as this bitter, ex-Scientologist. I'm not trying to bash anybody, and I'm not trying to be controversial. I just want people to know the truth.

  

  Leah Remini
  • People
  • Trying
  • Truth

• I don't really have special rituals, but I don't try to write fiction unless I have a minimum of a few hours. For me, it takes a while to settle into a mode where I'm truly concentrating.

  Curtis Sittenfeld

• If anything I consider myself non-violent, I'm from the hippy era, peace, love, groovy.

  

  Rick James
  • Peace

• Sexuality isn't something you create. It is between people, and then it just happens.

  

  Vicky Krieps
  • People

• I had many boxing matches with my brother in the backyard when we were younger, and I guess while other people abhor boxing for its brutality, I also have to admire anyone who climbs into the ring to face up to what could be the ultimate defeat.

  

  Markus Zusak
  • People
  • Up
  • Brother

• It is important to remember that some of the most serious thinkers once thought that democracy was not compatible with the cultures of Germany, Italy, Japan, Latin America and Russia.

  

  Natan Sharansky
  • Important
  • Remember
  • America

• Most scientists will get serious media exposure about twice in their entire career. And they'll get that because they've actually done an experiment that was interesting.

  

  Aubrey de Grey
  • Done
  • Career
  • Interesting

• There is something truly restorative, finally comforting, in coming to the end of an illusion - a false hope.

  

  Sue Miller
  • Serious
  • Illusion
  • Comforting