Nancy K. Miller Quotes
The friendships with women—the women I write about in the book and others—included work. I wanted to show how shared work—parallel or in collaboration—makes for a different kind of affection and intensity.
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I like being an outsider. It is better in France on the outside.
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I like having a smaller family. I think the more people you have in the family, the more people there are to have problems with.
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I pick up the details that drive the organization insane. But sweating the details is more important than anything else.
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I am a huge wrestling fan. I would say The Rock is my favorite person to watch for obvious reasons.
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I'm not a singer. In 'Bye Bye Birdie,' I think I was the sad girl who sits on the park bench during 'Put on a Happy Face.'
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If I was Sean Connery, I would have been macho.
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I was a big fan of Jim Hall as well. I liked his comping style, his accompanying. And that he played, generally, four note chords, the top four strings of the guitar.
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Debate is healthy and no one in this chamber - starting with me - has a monopoly on being right.
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It's grueling never knowing if the audience is going to think you're funny. It's soul-destroying when they don't laugh.
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I decided to set out to prove that you could make a reasonable living building for the poor using recycled materials and only hiring unskilled labor.
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I consider Apple to be very closed. Let's say you have a book business, and you are charging 5 to 7 percent gross margins; you can't exist in an Apple world because they want 30 percent, and they don't care that you only have 7 percent to play with.
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Acting has always existed alongside my normal life. It's been a case of learning on the job. I've worked in so many styles, with so many people, so I've picked bits up from everyone and everything.
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If you had the most prestige and you were the network that everybody turned to in times of a crisis, that that was the most important position, in the news business, to hold.
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What the eyes perceive in herbs or stones or trees is not yet a remedy; the eyes see only the dross.
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Picking and choosing what kind of love is worth recognizing is an expensive choice. Is discrimination worth that price?
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Sometimes I like to vent.
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Contemporary fiction is the hardest for me because I am not really in the popular culture - I don't watch TV.
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My family and my friends are most important to me. These people are my foundation.
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I said, I like my life. If Ihave to give it back, if theytake it from me, let me onlynot feel I wasted any, let menot feel I forgot to love anyoneI meant to love, that I forgotto give what I held in my hands,that I forgot to do some littlepiece of the work that wantedto come through.
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Bieber's so talented, he needs to just be himself and be by himself and work on his craft. He has a lot of people around; he has to find the right team to help him make something that's going to stand alone.
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A large demo of my fans are younger, and I try to be the best role model possible and tell them that if you work hard and believe in yourself, you can create amazing work.
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I think that life in Israel is sometimes bigger than the movies.
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Writers on etiquette receive a continuous flow of questions on subjects such as 'When is it too early in the season to wear white accessories?' and 'What is the proper gift to send to a family in mourning?'
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The friendships with women—the women I write about in the book and others—included work. I wanted to show how shared work—parallel or in collaboration—makes for a different kind of affection and intensity.
