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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Being a model, you're always the product of somebody else's vision.
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I like being an outsider. It is better in France on the outside.
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Well, I always say the law was meant to be interpreted in a lenient manner. And that's what I try to do, is sometimes I lean to one side of it, sometimes I lean to the other.
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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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People who relieve others of their money with guns are called robbers. It does not alter the immorality of the act when the income transfer is carried out by government.
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I love physical kinds of comedy and getting down and dirty and doing stunts. When I was growing up, I was always getting into fights with guys and usually punching out boys my age because I was a lot bigger and tougher. So I'm naturally accustomed to putting myself into the headspace of a girl who can take care of herself.
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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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You think, 'You hired me because I'm a creative artist with a vision. Don't try and knock it out of me.'
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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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I was always in plays at school and in school concerts - you could say I liked to show off.
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Across the communication landscape move the specters of sinister technologies and the dreams that money can buy.
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I believe life takes us where we need to be.
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I've taken my clothes off enough in my career.
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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.
