Wentworth Miller Quotes
An actor's job is to embrace emotions and situations that in real life we spend all of our time running away from.
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Every pitcher can beat you, it doesn't matter how good you are.
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I don't think healthcare's a right. The only right you have is the ability to go out on an even playing field and work, and then purchase health insurance, or whatever it is.
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A true lover always feels in debt to the one he loves.
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My first novel, 'In the Drink,' begun when I was 29 and floundering and published when I was 36 and married, was about a 29-year-old woman whose life was even more screwed up than my own had been.
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When I began I thought that literature was contained within a bubble that somehow floated above the world commented upon by newspapers. But I became more and more interested in trying to include some of that world within my work.
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I do a lot of TV stuff, but I also turn a lot down - it's got to be an adventure.
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Science fiction writers have usually been very poor prognosticators of the future, either in literary or technological terms, and that's because we're all too human and, I think, have the tendency to see what we want to or, in the case of those more paranoid, what we fear.
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Sometimes I still go round the house making weird noises and stuff, so in that aspect, I haven't grown up!
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You put a lot of pressure on your defenders to be able to hold the fort when you go forward.
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I was just doing bits and pieces of acting in the U.K. I'd been in the film 'Breaking and Entering' - Anthony Minghella gave me my start and I miss him dearly. Then I made the trip out to L.A., during one of their pilot seasons, which was when they were developing 'Gossip Girl,' and I auditioned, and things came together.
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The one thing you don't want is that stale sound when you've done a line so much you can't find a fresh approach to it. Drop it.
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Our seniors' retirement should never rely on the bull of political promises or the bear of the market.
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The essence of the conservative message should be we want a dynamic nation where anybody with nothing can achieve anything.
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Philanthropic dollars are precious resources, so it's our responsibility to consider how we use them carefully. Yet few of us spend enough time doing so.
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If I got places, sir, it was because I made myself fit for 'em. If you want to slip into a round hole, you must make a ball of yourself; that's where it is.
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People in great trouble don't change to other people. They only change to themselves.
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Sometimes in order to make progress and move ahead, you have to stand up and do the wrong thing.
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Tom and I have a similar sensibility and experience. You know his dad was from Kentucky where I set the film, and so was mine. That's where he died. His mom's really important in his life and so is mine,
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You either get tired fighting for peace, or you die.
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I find the world just too complex to embrace a single ideological point of view.
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Whenever you bring up women's internal workings, guys want to change the subject. Unless, of course, they're trying to change the laws.
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An actor's job is to embrace emotions and situations that in real life we spend all of our time running away from.
