Wentworth Miller Quotes
I don't think you need to watch Arrow and Flash to appreciate what it is Legends has to offer. The beauty of this show - and they do this on Flash, and they did this on Arrow - is that we do spend time on character. We do spend time on backstory. We do take a moment in between the sci-fi special effects to tell you who these people are, so that when something happens to them, you actually care.
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I see my daft surname as a positive thing. It first dawned on me that I had a comical name when someone called me 'Fishface' on my first day at school. I've heard all the fish jokes since then, many times over.
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I'm not a power person. I like everyone to be on an equal footing.
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I really want to have actors contribute their own ideas, with phrasings and ideas on all levels.
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Our parents all experimented with raising us in a fairly loose, unorthodox way. A huge emphasis was placed on creativity, and our artistic efforts were never dismissed as childish. There was a sense that we - kids and grown-ups - all had the potential to make something of value. Our drawings were not simply destined for the refrigerator.
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I think you can soften people's hearts, even if they have a lot of hate. Music can do that if it's beautiful and honest. If I can do that - soften just one person's heart - I consider myself successful already.
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I have never taken myself that seriously as an actor.
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I can't deal with someone flashy. That's so not me.
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Government does not create jobs, but it can help set the table for economic growth with the right policies.
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I just wasn't cut out to be a Chinese Tiger Mom. I'm more of an Irish Setter Dad.
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People have a right to violence, to rebel, to fight back.
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I wanted to get a job being creative, and I did.
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The pressure makes me more intent about each shot. Pressure on the last few holes makes me play better.
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Each language has its own take on the world. That's why a translation can never be absolutely exact, and therefore, when you enter another language and speak with its speakers, you become a slightly different person; you learn a different sort of world.
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John Wayne treated me fine, but that macho stuff turns me off. It's not real.
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Although in skating you compete with other people, anyone who achieves a certain level of success is first and foremost competing against themselves. And for me, the idea that I could always do better, learn more, learn faster, is something that came from skating.
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If you have a bad day in baseball, and start thinking about it, you will have 10 more.
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Globalization is simply opening the free marketplace to encompass the entire world.
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Most of the well-known American feminists of the 19th century did not come out against the institution of marriage.
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When Democrats concede the idea that some voters are not our voters, we shouldn't be surprised when those voters agree.
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It is not necessary to bury the truth. It is sufficient merely to delay it until nobody cares.
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The English tradition offers the great tapestry novel, where you have the emotional aspect of a detective's personal life, the circumstances of the crime and, most important, the atmosphere of the English countryside that functions as another character.
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Some people think memoirs should be held to a perfect journalistic standard. Some people don't. Obviously I don't. My goal was never to create or to write a perfect journalistic standard of my life. It was always to be as literature.
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In Hollywood people lie to each other and cheat each other and then go and play tennis. But I don't want to be a tennis player.
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I don't think you need to watch Arrow and Flash to appreciate what it is Legends has to offer. The beauty of this show - and they do this on Flash, and they did this on Arrow - is that we do spend time on character. We do spend time on backstory. We do take a moment in between the sci-fi special effects to tell you who these people are, so that when something happens to them, you actually care.
