Wentworth Miller Quotes
A great book provides escapism for me. The artistry and the creativity in a story are better than any drugs.
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Seeing a catering truck feels like home.
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I have five horses. My first was a professional jumper named Santos. I got him when I was 18.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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The good romances are as good as anything.
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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.
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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.
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An awful lot of Republicans, both in Washington and outside Washington, are resigned to leaving Obamacare in effect.
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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.
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The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
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All I ever want is to return to either Bangladesh, my motherland, or India, my adopted home.
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If you ask me what's harder, being famous or flying to space, I'd say fame is much harder.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I think every first-person narrator in a novel should be compromised. I prefer that word to 'unreliable.'
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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.
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Jazz fans love Miles and I love him for a myriad of reasons, but the overviews are always too simplistic.
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I had such a supportive family, and I think that affects your life in such a profound way; it fortifies you completely.
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Believe it or not, but 'White Heat' and 'Little Caesar' keep dancing around in my brainpan while I'm writing 'Moonshine.'
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If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
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We did not have a television while I was growing up, and so I read voraciously. My earliest memory of being utterly transfixed by a book was Madeleine L'Engle's 'A Wrinkle in Time.'
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For myself, suffering doesnt make me a good person; it makes me selfish. Why do we think that people who have less should find it edifying?
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God moves in mysterious ways. All gods do. It's the only way they can work.
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A great book provides escapism for me. The artistry and the creativity in a story are better than any drugs.
