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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I am more afraid of those who are terrified of the devil than I am of the devil himself.
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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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Take me, I am the drug; take me, I am hallucinogenic.
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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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The more I come to know about the outside world's perception of China, the more I feel there are all sorts of misunderstandings, and to a certain extent, people do not get the full picture from the media. A lot of foreigners have few opportunities to visit China, and a lot of Chinese people do not have the chance to go to Europe or to the West.
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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 didn't grow up listening to country music. I pretty much grew up rebelling against country music.
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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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True, it returns ' ' for false, but ' ' is an even more interesting number than 0.
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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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Is Duran's 'No Mas' a more defining moment in his career than his victory over Sugar Ray Leonard in their first fight? For many, it is.
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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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One mysterious person looking at another mysterious person equals what? Another mystery.
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Real tolerance means respecting other people even when they baffle you and you have no idea why they think what they think.
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A lot of times as writers, you want to come up with the best possible story, and you bend it according to what you want to happen. I think one of the things that I always try to think about is what would really happen in a situation, what feels real.
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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.
