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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My dad, Paul, is, like, my best friend.
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My writing process hasn't changed - it's is the same whether I'm working on a Y.A. novel or, as now, a new novel for adults. A lot of reading, a lot of research if the subject warrants it, a lot of sticky notes and scraps of paper - and get to work.
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I have hundreds and hundreds of people from Brazil, Chile, Columbia and Argentina, every day, buying my music and telling me about it online.
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I was born in a family with a strong military background, so I chose to be a soldier.
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I always thought of myself as more American than Americans when I was living in Germany, because I always had this attitude of can-do, and if you're successful, you can show it, which is a very un-German thing, you know.
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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.
