Mike Mills Quotes
I don't really believe that documentary is objective reality and fiction is all illusion.Mike Mills
Quotes to Explore
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I love being a mum, but it's much more intensive work than being an actress - going to work feels like you've got a day off. Not that I want a day off from being a mum; it's just perhaps I had this impression before that mums don't work. But they work more than anyone.
Natalie Portman -
After I win a match, I celebrate it by having an ice cream.
Saina Nehwal -
I didn't even start college until I was 21.
Gayle Forman -
If you are going to make a change, don't go halfway. Make it with conviction and stick with your new idea. Ignore the scoffers. Remember, it is a law of nature that if something is different you're going to be taunted, jeered, and told the world is flat. Let the doubters fall off the edge.
Gary McCord -
I'd rather play a tune on a horn, but I've always felt that I didn't want to train myself. Because when you get a train, you've got to have an engine and a caboose. I think it's better to train the caboose. You train yourself, you strain yourself.
Captain Beefheart -
Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
Walter Savage Landor
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Immortality. We all want to be remembered: We want to do things that will make people say, 'Isn't he wonderful?'
Lajos Egri -
I like politics. I like traveling in the United States.
Laura Bush -
If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.
Jackie Kennedy -
I have friends who are leading men, and they're only ever allowed to play leading men of a certain type. But as a character actor, there's a wider variety of projects available. On the big Hollywood films, all they care about is having their lead in place, so it's actually easier for someone like me to slip in. And I'm happy to do so.
Eddie Marsan -
We're in the hands of the state legislature and God, but at the moment, the state legislature has more to say than God.
Ed Koch -
The gentle minde by gentle deeds is knowne. For a man by nothing is so well bewrayd, As by his manners.
Edmund Spenser
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For every champion, after you win the belt, you want to defend it as many times as possible.
Demetrious Johnson -
Despite the success cult, men are most deeply moved not by the reaching of the goal but by the grandness of the effort involved in getting there - or failing to get there.
Max Lerner -
One of the things that's pretty unique about nu shu, when you look especially at these old letters and stories that have been saved, is that there are certain lines that are very standard that are used again and again. It's almost like a formula in a sense, so that these certain lines come up again and again.
Lisa See -
Unfortunately, in television today there are very few African-American characters who are human beings. They are typically two-dimensional stereotypes, cookie-cutter types.
Andre Braugher -
I think that's the most important job of a novelist - to bring authority to their writing.
Maria Semple -
I think when a lot of people hear the term 'country,' they step off from it.
Anderson East
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The challenge for any fiction writer is that your job involves simply sitting at a desk for a very, very long time.
Chad Harbach -
Stealing bases is just something I like to do. I figure if I can hit home runs and steal bases, I'd be different than everybody else.
Carl Crawford -
I'm never going to be disabled. I'm sick of being so healthy.
Dan Castellaneta -
Location work has its charms, and can seem glamorous on the outside, but I think living at home and having the stability of a home life once you've finished work is very underrated!
Saffron Burrows -
Violence is sometimes a very practical solution but I don't think it is the ultimate solution. Owning a gun is not OK for me. But I could argue both sides. Why shouldn't people own them? I'm not fundamentally against citizens having access to a weapon but I think it has complications. It's probably not the wisest idea. Obviously, it has consequences. Personally, I do not own a weapon.
Keanu Reeves -
I don't really believe that documentary is objective reality and fiction is all illusion.
Mike Mills