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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Nivea Firming Body Lotion. When it goes on sale, I buy it in bulk. I am obsessed with it and how it makes my skin look and feel.
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I will ge glad to have done with this life forever.
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I want to be a Christian like Christ - loving and accepting of other people.
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Congress has a legitimate interest in making sure that a practice that appears to reduce disease and healthcare costs remains available to parents. And, nothing in my bill prohibits statewide law ensuring that male circumcision occurs in a hygienic manner.
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The striking thing about the Precious Blood is the bond it establishes between love and suffering in our experience, a bond that has become so close that we have come to think of suffering accepted with joy as the most authentic sign of love with any depth at all.
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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.
