Wentworth Miller Quotes

A great book provides escapism for me. The artistry and the creativity in a story are better than any drugs.

Wentworth Miller

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• inspirational
• Creativity
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• Artistry
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• Seeing a catering truck feels like home.

  

  Dakota Johnson
  • Home
  • Truck
  • Seeing

• I have five horses. My first was a professional jumper named Santos. I got him when I was 18.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Professional
  • First
  • Him

• I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Money

• The good romances are as good as anything.

  

  Karen Robards
  • Good
  • Anything
  • Romances

• While we know gambling is part of the industry in Las Vegas, we're not going to make it all that easy for you to pick up a ticket, a gambling ticket, on your way into the arena.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Up
  • Know
  • Easy

• Our marine terminals are invaluable commerce infrastructure, not only to our country but also for the many foreign manufacturers who sell primarily in the U.S. market.

  

  Dana Rohrabacher
  • Country
  • Market
  • Marine

• An awful lot of Republicans, both in Washington and outside Washington, are resigned to leaving Obamacare in effect.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Leaving
  • Washington
  • Outside

• Dancers, many dancers today can do so much technically. You can give them steps that are complicated, then more complicated, pyrotechnical - and they can execute these steps to perfection. But to do simple steps with a pure classical line, that is truly difficult.

  

  Natalia Makarova
  • Today
  • Simple
  • Perfection

• The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Time
  • Nature
  • Moments

• All I ever want is to return to either Bangladesh, my motherland, or India, my adopted home.

  

  Taslima Nasrin
  • Home
  • Want
  • India

• If you ask me what's harder, being famous or flying to space, I'd say fame is much harder.

  

  Yi So-Yeon
  • Space
  • Famous
  • Flying

• Wherever there is greater joy, there is the direction of everyone’s activity, because the innermost of everyone is really the lighted lamp of Total Knowledge, total organising power of knowledge, it’s all bliss, it’s not necessary for the people to suffer.

  

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
  • People
  • Power
  • Knowledge

• Neo-conservatives are unlike old conservatives because they are utilitarians, not moralists, and because their aim is the prosperity of post-industrial society, not the recovery of a golden age.

  

  Irving Kristol
  • Age
  • Society
  • Recovery

• I wanted just a song to sing, and there came a certain point where I couldn't sing anything. So I had to write what I wanted to sing 'cos nobody else was writing what I wanted to sing.

  

  Bob Dylan
  • Writing
  • Song

• I think every first-person narrator in a novel should be compromised. I prefer that word to 'unreliable.'

  

  Charles Palliser

• I've tried not to get sucked into the Hollywood hierarchy system. Personally, I don't like it when people are deferential to me because I'm an established filmmaker. It's a blue-collar sensibility.

  

  James Cameron
  • People
  • Blue

• Jazz fans love Miles and I love him for a myriad of reasons, but the overviews are always too simplistic.

  

  Branford Marsalis

• I had such a supportive family, and I think that affects your life in such a profound way; it fortifies you completely.

  

  Phoebe Waller-Bridge
  • Life
  • Family
  • Profound

• Yes, well, principles are sometimes the problem, if you ask me,' said Miles. 'Often what's needed is a bit of common sense.' 'Which is the name people usually give to their prejudices,' rejoined Kay.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • People

• When I adapt a novel, I don’t really use the script, I use the book; when I did Apocalypse Now, I used Heart of Darkness. Novels usually have so much rich material.

  

  Francis Ford Coppola
  • Book
  • Novel
  • Script

• Sometimes, and I hate to say it, you do feel things are asked for in the most ludicrously unrealistic fashion. The time you are expected to make things in, and the money you are expected to make them for - that is the death of creativity. Just because some things can be made very cheaply does not mean everything can be.

  

  Darren Boyd
  • Time
  • Money
  • Death

• The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerance. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Character
  • American
  • Respect

• There are more people who wish to be loved than there are who are willing to love.

  

  Sébastien-Roch Nicolas
  • People
  • Love
  • Loved

• A great book provides escapism for me. The artistry and the creativity in a story are better than any drugs.

  

  Wentworth Miller
  • Book
  • inspirational
  • Creativity