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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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 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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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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The bottom line is, Texas and its people are pretty much what most people mean when they use the broader term 'America.'
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Gina Gershon was a year ahead of me in college.
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You've got to know business before you go to show business.
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Do and act on what you believe to be right, and you'll wake up the next morning feeling good about yourself.
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I've played all kinds of TV roles, from cowboys to fathers of teenagers. It's helped me a lot. Of course, I was very lucky to have had good directors.
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The Journey of Reconciliation was organized not only to devise techniques for eliminating Jim Crow in travel, but also as a training ground for similar peaceful projects against discrimination in such major areas as employment and in the armed services.
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Preschoolers have a way of grabbing your attention. Mine help me not to be a baseball player at home.
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I like to add something unusual to a dish.
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All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses, his real conditions of life, and his relations with his kind.
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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.
