Mike Mills Quotes
My experience, with both my parents, is that grief has a lot of down, sad things, but I was also really emotionally raw, in the first year after each of them passed. Flowers smelled more intensely, my relationships were hotter, and I was more willing to risk. I was going for it a lot more. I was 'unsober' and I wasn't playing by my rules.
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Metro never really wanted me for anything. I was always the one who happened to be free when their first choice was not.
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The talent curve in game-making is going straight up to Heaven.
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Nobody is bothered about an institution more than its alumni.
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Women must not shout back when their husbands come home and shout at them for any reason.
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The training of younger generations is very close to my heart.
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I've had the same barber since I was about 14 years old.
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I personally see myself as a musician in the first place. You know, I don't want to say I will be a producer and DJ for the rest of my life. I can totally see myself being in another band in five years, if that's what my heart and soul wants to do, if that's what will make me happy. I'm totally happy to just not DJ anymore.
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I'm process-orientated. Awards, by their nature, are results-orientated.
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I wish I were kind of normal. It would be so much more simple.
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I feel there is a big sense of accomplishment and achievement and self worth through what you do no matter what the job, no matter what you decide to dedicate your life to.
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That image is a couple different people's homes that I knew growing up.
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The Arab awakening was driven by youth, organized by technology, and fired by a hunger for political change.
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I love Lady Gaga and I love Katy Perry and R&B and rap music... I love big, American pop music.
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Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged.
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When I go into the studio, I completely detach. I let my emotions come out.
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My main point is to be funny; if I can slip a message in there, fine.
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Unrest of spirit is a mark of life.
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Love is cheering and sharing and compassion and giving and receiving. Love is an action thing more than a word thing, that brings comfort or joy or relief to anyone or anything.
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Human beings suffer agonies, and their sad fates become legends; poets write verses about them and playwrights compose dramas, and the remembrance of past grief becomes a source of present pleasure - such is the strange alchemy of the spirit.
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One who has never known the turbulence of life, in whom the petals of the mysterious flower within have never opened; such a one may seem happy, may seem a saint, his single track mind may impress the multitude with its power - but he is ill equipped for life's true adventure into the infinite.
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I did go there later, but I hadn't been there before I wrote the book. Sometimes I feel like the imagined can feel more real than the real?
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As you become known, the demands on you are such that you get less and less time to do the things you want to do. But if there are no demands, then that means nobody wants to read what you're doing anyway, so you're stuck.
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My experience, with both my parents, is that grief has a lot of down, sad things, but I was also really emotionally raw, in the first year after each of them passed. Flowers smelled more intensely, my relationships were hotter, and I was more willing to risk. I was going for it a lot more. I was 'unsober' and I wasn't playing by my rules.
