Mike Mills Quotes
As a son of a man who pretended to be one thing for 33 years of my life and then was another thing, the questions of 'what is real' and 'what is not real' are very blurrily vivid to me.
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I think I began to like writing a lot more, and to be a better writer, when I did it for a while alone. It made me a little more confident about my style.
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Guinea pigs are quite difficult to draw, I think, because they're so furry.
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I'm a composer, man.
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There needs to be a place in the church or just outside - there needs to be a place where people feel free to ask questions without being put upon, where they feel free to ask difficult, challenging questions to voice their skepticism.
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Unless we provide consequences for activities and actions that are wrong, we are not going to get any truth.
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A rich, robust, well-resourced public education is one of the best routes out of poverty and a pathway to prosperity.
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You have to respect your audience. Without them, you're essentially standing alone, singing to yourself.
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A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.
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Publishing for me is a business, not an ideology.
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In Spain, the dead are more alive than the dead of any other country in the world.
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A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
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Women who give up their children for adoption are years and years later talking about how painful it was, much more than women who have abortions.
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I think young writers should get other degrees first, social sciences, arts degrees or even business degrees. What you learn is research skills, a necessity because a lot of writing is about trying to find information.
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I never had the chance to consider what or how I wanted to be.
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Putin could no more survive returning Crimea to Ukraine than Bibi Netanyahu could survive giving East Jerusalem back to Jordan.
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When I was a kid, we always had big gardens, acres of stuff we grew out in the yard.
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I'm pretty, but I'm not, like, a 'pretty girl.'
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I have had to learn about saying no.
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I think I land somewhere between Scorsese and Capra in what I'm drawn to emotionally; I'm drawn to very intense emotion. Capra freaked people out when they saw Jimmy Stewart lose it in 'It's a Wonderful Life.'
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The public has lost the habit of movie-going because the cinema no longer possesses the charm, the hypnotic charisma, the authority it once commanded. The image it once held for us all - that of a dream we dreamt with our eyes open - has disappeared.
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You compose because you want to somehow summarize in some permanent form your most basic feelings about being alive, to set down... some sort of permanent statement about the way it feels to live now, today.
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I've had so much stress in the last year so it's really a struggle. I never hide, when I walk down the street, someone's going to take my picture, that's what I look like.
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Anytime someone orders a pastrami sandwich on white bread, somewhere a Jew dies.
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As a son of a man who pretended to be one thing for 33 years of my life and then was another thing, the questions of 'what is real' and 'what is not real' are very blurrily vivid to me.
