Milton Glaser Quotes
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Sean Connery wasn't the Scottish James Bond and Daniel Craig wasn't the blue-eyed James Bond. So if I played him, I don't want to be called the black James Bond.
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Lord of the Rings made me realize that I'm not interested in doing anyone else's work.
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I wanted to write a happy song. I didn't know how.
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My favorite thing to do in this world is to be on the ice playing hockey and try to entertain fans and bring wins to the Chicago Blackhawks.
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I'm consistently telling stories about the value of the human condition and connectedness and things like that.
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All you wanna do in life is do what you do well. That's when you're happiest.
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England is a nation of shopkeepers.
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There is no other prize in any country that carries the prestige that a Nobel bestows.
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Polka dots can't stay alone. When we obliterate nature and our bodies with polka dots, we become part of the unity of our environments.
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I've written fiction for as long as I can remember; it's always been my preferred form of play.
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As an actor, I have casting issues. I'm a minority. I don't have trouble making a living, but as far as being on the food chain of the pecking order of actors, I'm not at the top of it. With the jobs that I do, there are always control issues with directors and producers.
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Real biologists who actually do the research will tell you that they almost never find a phenomenon, no matter how odd or irrelevant it looks when they first see it, that doesn't prove to serve a function. The outcome itself may be due to small accidents of evolution.
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The first thing you have to understand is that I was not desperate to be a writer. I was never a closet writer filing away notes in a cupboard.
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Welcome those big, sticky, complicated problems. In them are your most powerful opportunities.
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I think whenever you love something or somebody it means that you have to extend yourself, you have to grow - get a little larger. You can't stay in your little comfortable - spot.
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I love stretching in the morning. It's the first thing I do when I wake up because getting a good back-crack is so extremely satiating. I feel taller when I finally stand.
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The American people are sheep. They're comfortable, rich, working. It's like the Romans, they're happy with bread and their spectator sports. The Super Bowl means more to them than any right.
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I'm lucky to have been blessed with a great family and a wonderful Christian wife.
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People change their opinion according to your position. And both politicians and bureaucrats begin to take you more seriously, as they suddenly feel you have become more important.
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If you think about my filmography, I have never done a movie that a kid could go see, except for 'Iron Giant,' and I'm not even on the screen.
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The FHA literally drew up the redlining map and then basically distributed - I'm sorry, the Home Owners' Loan Corporation actually did it, and then distributed to banks who used that as policy to determine how they would lend and who they would lend to. The racism in the system was pervasive and total.
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Growing up, I'd just be at home, playing tennis, spending my allowance on an ice-cream truck.
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There is no certainty; there is only adventure.
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Certainty is a closing of the mind. To create something new you must have doubt.
