Mike Mills Quotes
No one leaves the edit room thinking, 'Yeah, I nailed that one!' Everyone I know goes into their first premiere or their first screening thinking, 'I screwed up so bad. I'm sorry, I messed up.' It's just a real common feeling.
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Eventually, I grew out of my interest in motorcycles because they're quite dangerous. I don't ride them anymore. But I have this history.
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Over the years, humans have managed to incorporate nearly every element, light and weighty, common and obscure, into our daily lives. And given how small atoms are and how many of them there are all around us, it's almost certain that your body has at least brushed against an atom of every single natural element on the periodic table.
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You get more insight as you get older, on everything.
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I'm not really into the political game as far as paying politicians and stuff like that, I'm not into that. You do your job, and I'll do mine.
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I floated around in the department of biochemistry and learned some interesting things, and then I began to... I never wanted to work with a mentor because I always wanted to have my own reputation and be free to do what I wanted to do. So I worked with the weakest people in the department. Don't make that public.
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We worked solidly for a long time together. George Marriott Edgar and myself.
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I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.
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Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society.
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When you are no more, only then for the first time will you be.
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If you can be who you are on camera, which is not easy, then I think you're going to be successful.
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Being an artist is not easy - I have always said that to the students I have taught over the years. It's a huge sacrifice.
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Writers are lampposts and critics are dogs. Ask lampposts what they think about dogs. Does the dog hurt the lamppost?
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When I read Thirteen Days I was moved by it. It was just a great time for the world, in terms of looking back in history and seeing how we got ourselves into trouble and how we got ourselves out of trouble.
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I'm a feminist, but I think that romance has been taken away a bit for my generation. I think what people connect with in novels is this idea of an overpowering, encompassing love - and it being more important and special than anything and everything else.
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That made me feel good, not to go to a resort where outside the door is extreme poverty.
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Here's an idea: How about just 'Americans?' That has a nice ring to it, if you ask me. Placing undue emphasis on our 'separateness' is a step backward. Bring back the melting pot.
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People should try to know God and imitate him in their works. Repetitions and ceremonials are of no use.
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When you start messing with the Constitution and what this country was founded on - our baseline is what we call it - it just opens up too many doors.
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Art has no end but its own perfection.
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Simply put, when women do well, everybody does better.
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It's just nice to be employed.
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Shortly after the end of last season, I felt that I probably would not return for the 1999-2000 season. I also felt that I should take as much time as possible to sort through my feelings and make sure that my feelings were backed with conviction.
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No one leaves the edit room thinking, 'Yeah, I nailed that one!' Everyone I know goes into their first premiere or their first screening thinking, 'I screwed up so bad. I'm sorry, I messed up.' It's just a real common feeling.
