Mike Mills Quotes
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My parents did their best - that earns a lot of forgiveness. But they say children grow up in spite of their parents, and I think I did.
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The Violence Against Women Act is so important. It provides money to train the cop on the beat, to train the judges that this is a new day, that we won't tolerate this violence and to know how to deal with it.
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Each dress symbolizes the age that it's appropriate for.
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I have always believed that when you're feeling sorry for yourself, the best thing to do is help someone else.
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Social paralysis is strong and stands firmly in the way of change on the ground level. As allies, we have to prepare ourselves to step into the fire when necessary, even - and especially - when said fire is merely a still-lit cigarette tossed carelessly onto the street.
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Whatever the right hand findeth to do, the left hand carries a watch on its wrist to show how long it takes to do it.
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There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us.
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I've never, ever done a piece of work - and can't imagine doing a piece of work - when I've thought, 'I was pretty perfect in that.'
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I'm always keeping an eye out for a period piece. I was trained in theatre, so most of the things we did were classical - Shakespeare, Moliere, and Chekhov.
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You become what you believe, not what you think or what you want.
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I have these visions of myself being thirty, thirty-five, forty having a family.
Nastassja Kinski -
When I'm filming, it's in the contract - 'No kiteboarding' - ha ha.
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I want my legacy to be about the soccer, and if I can help people be happier in life in any capacity, awesome.
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When there is conflict, it's good to step away, even for five minutes, because you could say terrible things that you can't take back, so it's best to walk away.
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For whatever reason, I didn't succumb to the stereotype that science wasn't for girls. I got encouragement from my parents. I never ran into a teacher or a counselor who told me that science was for boys. A lot of my friends did.
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Men and women who know the brutal reality of war, who know that war strips people of their very humanity, must unite in a new global partnership for peace.
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I come from a massive family, and the youngest is twentysomething years younger than I am, so I grew up with children.
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We had to get on food stamps for a short period of time, so I understand the need for those.
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There's definitely stories I would like to tell; I'd like to see more films focusing on women's lives.
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Glory lies in the attempt to reach one's goal and not in reaching it.
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A wide screen just makes a bad film twice as bad.
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The only thing documentary filmmakers have to work with, at least the way I make films, is trust. That's been true of everyone from James Carville and George Stephanopoulos to the kids in 'American High' to the soldiers in 'Military Diaries' to Anna Wintour to Dick Cheney.
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I shall have poetry in my life. And adventure. And love, love, love, above all. Love as there has never been in a play. Unbiddable, ungovernable, like a riot in the heart and nothing to be done, come ruin or rapture.
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Film is endlessly just beyond your reach. I think that's what I love so much about it.
