Whitney MacMillan Quotes
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Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.
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All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
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I'm not anti-middle-class in the slightest. Look at me! I am very pro people putting time and money and effort into trying to improve the world.
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I liked that music was a window into a world with a lot of unpredictability and chaos; it was almost diametrically opposed to my very regimented day-to-day living.
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I want girls to know that equality exists in this world. You can do anything you want.
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Well, we've made huge strides since the 1990 World Cup, USA '94, and obviously since '98. Unfortunately, those strides only register with the public once every four years.
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The best way to resolve any problem in the human world is for all sides to sit down and talk.
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Mrs. Obama is not a great beauty. But she is so interesting-looking - so bright. That will always take you farther.
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I feel creatively vibrant. I have some great friends; I feel like I'm capable of giving a lot to the world. And ultimately, that's what I really care about, is just giving.
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The world today is divided into the free and the enslaved.
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Every film you're commissioned to write is all about an arc; usually, the arc is that the world creates a change in the character, usually for the better. To not have an arc, the messages and ideas in the film became more prominent.
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Veganism is an answer for almost every problem facing the world in terms of hunger and climate change.
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What's interesting to me is the distinction between my old life and my present life.
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One of the things that first attracted me to chess is that it brings you into contact with intelligent, civilized people - men of the stature of Garry Kasparov, the former world champion, who was my part-time coach.
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I read many things. I read to fill in my knowledge of the world.
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America is the biggest gang in the world.
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The evil of it is that it is a world wrapped up in too much jeweller’s cotton and fine wool, and cannot hear the rushing of the larger worlds, and cannot see them as they circle round the sun. It is a deadened world, and its growth is sometimes unhealthy for want of air.
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I had a strong conviction that there was something out there in the world that was wonderful.
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I think Varga is a manifestation, certainly, and someone who can thrive and profit from the world's failure and has worked out the operation, whatever the operation may be, that he's about, which will remain a mystery.
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The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.
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The passion for seeking the truth for truth's sake...can be kept alive only if we continue to seek the truth for truth's sake.
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I love how intimate I've become with failure.
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I've made my share of mistakes, but had the good fortune to have them not be so public.
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Food has become such an interesting issue in the nation and the world.
