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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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 would be hard-pressed to look back at anything that I have done in my career and not say, 'I would have done that a little different' because hindsight is 20/20.
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What we do today has nothing to do with capitalism or socialism. It is a crony type of system that transfers money to the coffers of bureaucrats.
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All those things they say about a baby changing your perspective - it does!
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I love musk oil. There's something about musk that makes it memorable without being overpowering.
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Professionally, when I did the Olympic games and sang for my country in Australia. It was a big moment, Sydney in 2000. It was just a brilliant moment in my life.
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Classical music only really came into my life in 1969. I wish I had heard classical music and church music when I was a teenager or even as a child.
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I have only one real enemy in my life that I know about, and that is John Houseman. Everything begins and ends with that hostility behind the mandarin benevolence.
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Whatever you would make habitual, practice it; and if you would not make a thing habitual, do not practice it, but accustom yourself to something else.
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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.
